(A) All city policies that regulate off-duty conduct apply to social media activity.
(B) The e-mail and internet policy is applicable to all social media activity, including but not limited to the prohibition of use of city computer to access social media networking sites, blogs, or bulletin boards and/or to surf, post, blog or otherwise access social networking sites during working hours unless as performance of an authorized duty.
(C) Subject to the general rules, individual social media users acting on their own behalf, without identifying themselves as employees or in any way indicating their status as such, may make non-work-related social media comments, without review or approval by employer, provided that such activity does not constitute defamation or misrepresent or distort facts in such a manner that it may cause negative effects for employer, council or employees.
(D) If an employee believes that someone has “hacked” (accessed without their permission) his or her social networking site and posted an entry which violates a provision of this ordinance, then the employee should inform his or her Supervisor/Department Head of the “hacking” and remove the post that violates the ordinance.
(Ord. 02:2014, passed 2-10-14)