A. Use Permitted: Blogs are an effective way to communicate with a specific audience on a specific topic. Employees may use blogs for City business where appropriate.
B. Approval Required: Employees posting information on specific City issues, business or topics of interest must receive approval from the Mayor's Communications Team prior to posting on any blog.
C. Records Management, Retention: Blog entries discussing matters of City business must be treated in the same manner as e-mails or other formal correspondence. As such, the records management procedures and retention schedules for e-mail are applicable to blog entries created by City employees as they relate to City business or topics.
D. Use For Investigations: Information posted on City business related blogs may be reviewed as part of investigations into work related misconduct or noninvestigatory work related searches, including, but not limited to, Human Resources personnel matters, litigation disclosure, forensic analysis and information requests under GRAMA, whether or not legal action may be required to obtain those records not contained on City servers.
E. Employee Responsible For Content: Employees are responsible for the content of blog entries they create and to ensure that information about City business that they post in blogs is accurate and kept current. (2019 Compilation)