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Federal agencies are requesting access to state and local government data for immigration enforcement purposes. Some experts argue this could impact public trust, but protections can be implemented. -
As parents race to get their children into summer camp, a park district in Colorado is using tools from Rec to bring more mobile stability to the process. A park executive and Rec CEO discuss what’s happening.
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Senate Bill 707 mandates that larger cities and counties provide options for remote participation in public meetings by July 1, among other requirements related to translation and teleconferencing for elected officials.
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Getting agency heads on board with social media can ensure your efforts don't go unnoticed.
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Tech-enabled collaboration and streamlined service delivery are on display in this year's lineup of honorees.
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From deciding which agencies need their own social channel to figuring out when it's time to call it quits, governments are discovering there is more to pulling the plug than they might have originally thought.
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Government can no longer get away with pushing out the occasional press release — constituents demand real-time access. The changing paradigm toward immediate online engagement requires more coordination and thought from organizations to keep pace.
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What are the rules governing who’s watching you online?
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Early figures in the Cambridge Analytica scandal put the number of users affected at roughly 50 million, but now the social media company estimates that at least 87 million users had their data improperly shared.
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Attorney General Josh Hawley is launching an investigation into the social media company’s data sharing practices with political groups.
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Best practices for getting elected officials engaged in social media efforts.
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Thirty-three states have singed onto a letter asking the embattled social media giant to answer questions surrounding the Cambridge Analytica data use scandal.
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Some European citizens are effectively able to scrub themselves from online search engines, but the U.S. has not been so quick to legislate the same option.
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Facebook’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, has yet to comment on the data harvesting scandal.
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Teachers in West Virginia — and now Arizona and Oklahoma — are using Twitter and Facebook to crowdsource ideas, convene groups and amplify messages about pay grievances after years of education cost cutting.
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The University of Hawaii at Manoa is conducting a survey into public trust around social media and the January false missile alert.
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The region has attracted many large tech-centric companies looking to draw on its utility assets.
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Lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering legislation that would block schools and employers from digging into the social media accounts of students and workers.
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Plus, Buffalo, N.Y., creates a new open data portal, Baton Rouge, La., launches a new website, San Antonio forms a committee to address tech issues, and Ohio moves to a second phase of its Opioid Technology Challenge.
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The role of social media in citizen-government interactions has steadily increased in recent years as the public becomes more reliant on the medium for real-time information.
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