[Publib] social media policy & public records

[Robert Balliot]

That is a very interesting question.  I expect he would be concerned
 because of the lack
of case law specifically defining social media as public records.

If you use this search through the Electronic Freedom Foundation -

http://www.eff.org/search?text=public+records

there are several articles dealing with this subject matter.  I would
recommend a search
through your State Law Library <http://www.oregon.gov/SOLL/> using
Lexis<http://www.lexis.com/>or
Westlaw <http://www.westlaw.com/> for a better search.

If you do come up with a paragraph defining the relationship of social media
to public
records, please post it here.  I am sure that this question will come up
more frequently
as libraries adapt their policies to technological innovation.

In Rhode Island, RSS feeds - one of the cornerstones of social media -
provide access
to public records in the form of public meetings and
minutes<http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/oxford_presentation.htm>.


R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com



On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Abigail Elder <AElder at ci.tualatin.or.us>wrote:

>  Hello! My library has been running blogs, twitter, and facebook for the
> last several months, but we haven’t publicized it because we are finalizing
> our social media policy. Our city attorney is very concerned about how
> social media fits into public records requests. Does anyone have a policy
> that addresses this? I’ve been unable to find anything in library
> literature, publib or web4lib archives.
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> Thanks! Bonus question for twitters: do you block followers who are clearly
> “adult”?
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> -abigail
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