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> Several towns/counties didn't seem to have websites, or didn't put the events on the ones they had, instead preferring to announce them on Facebook. Yeah, no
by autoexec 4y ago
> Several towns/counties didn't seem to have websites, or didn't put the events on the ones they had, instead preferring to announce them on Facebook.
Yeah, no government agency should publish anything (however trivial) exclusively over a private platform. As far as I'm concerned it should be illegal and anything they do post on social media should always be a mirror of the same content posted to a public platform and retained according to the laws that agency should follow for their documents.
People should never have to worry about a private company being a barrier between them and their own government, and no private company should have the ability to pick and choose who can view what the government publishes, or to secretly modify that content (perhaps selectively), or to remove content that should stay part of public record.
- afiori 4y ago> and retained according to the laws that agency should follow for their documents. Even ignoring all other issues, this alone should be enough.
- datavirtue 4y agoYeah, do a FOIA request for any and all public COVID notifications and see if they can comply.
- NoGravitas 4y agoI don't think that really solves it, though; they just have to have someone in the office go to all the Facebook posts of the notifications, print them out, and snail mail them to you. Possibly time-consuming and therefore expensive, but FOIA-compliant.
- afiori 4y agoDoes FOIA compliance implies also proper archival? if they got banned or suspended from FB, could they still be FOIA compliant?