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Social Media Materials: Applications, Law and Policy
This website contains social media resources related to legal and policy issues. If there is anything I can do to assist you, please feel free to contact me (contact information at the bottom of this page).
SOG Materials and Blog Posts:
Sample Social Media Comment Policy, March 2021, Author: Shannon Tufts
Social Media Comment Policy Analysis, November 2019, Authors: Frayda Bluestein and Shannon Tufts
- Dealing with Harrassment and Threats Towards Local Government Employees and Officials (Kristi Nickoderm)
- Can Local Government Officials Block Their Critics on Social Media? (Kristi Nickoderm)
The First Amendment Keeps the 'Social' in Government Social Media (Frayda Bluestein)
The First Amendment and Facebook Rants
The First Amendment and Government Employees
- Social Media Law Presentation
- Social Media Trends and Best Practices
- Social Media Toolkit
Recent Case Law re: Social Media and First Amendment (along with other related articles):
- Campbell v. Reisch, 2021 (8th Circuit Court Decision)
- Garnier v. Poway Unified School District 2020
- Danyelle Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, 2020 (6th Circuit Court Decision)
- Jamie Marquardt v. Nicole Carlton, City of Cleveland , 2020 (6th Circuit Court Decision)
- Robinson v. Hunt County Texas, 2019 (5th Circuit Court Decision)
- Barone v. City of Springfield OR, 2018 (9th Circuit Court Decision)
- Liverman & Richards v. City of Petersburg & John I. Dixon, III , 2016 (4th Circuit Court Decision)
- Trump Can't Block Users
- Public Officials: Beware Blocking Critics on Social Media
Public Records Law, NC Records Retention Schedules & Public Records Blog Postings
NC General Statute 132 (Public Records)
Local Government Records Retention Schedules (NC State Archives)
Public Records and Online Databases (blog posting)
Email as a Public Record (blog posting)
Using Private Email for Public Business (blog posting)
Public Records Exceptions for LEO Information (blog posting)
Text Messages as Public Records (blog posting)
Shannon Tufts, Professor of Public Law and Government, tufts@unc.edu, 919.962.5438 (office), 919.369.3179 (cell)