Daily News | How Local Government Works: Are government officials’ personal social media posts public records?
Min Xian of Spotlight PA State CollegeHow Local Government Works is a series that focuses on issues and trends in Pennsylvania local governments and provides tools for readers to hold their local officials accountable.
The court said agencies that receive open-records requests also should consider the contents of the account, if they “prove, support, or evidence a transaction or activity of an agency.”The third factor to weigh is whether the person operating the account is acting in what the court calls their “official capacity.
The Office of Open Records — an independent agency that handles disputes over public record requests — had previously ruled that the contents of a social media account decide if they should be public records, and whether a government agency authorizes or controls those accounts was “immaterial” to the question.
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