Alaska legislative ethics committee tells Eagle River state Sen. Lora Reinbold to stop blocking critics on Facebook:
Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold stands in a hearing room before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on March 12, 2021, in Juneau.
In part because the Alaska Legislature hasn’t updated its social media policies since 2011, the committee recommended no punishment inThe committee directed Reinbold to “refrain from blocking members of the public from commenting on her legislative social media site solely for expressing opinions in disagreement with her own.
Sen. David Wilson, R-Wasilla and a member of the ethics committee, declined to comment on the case, citing the confidentiality of the proceedings and the possibility of an appeal.In general, he said, he believes the only time someone should be blocked from commenting on a legislator’s official social media page is if there’s “a real threat of harm or violence or something obscene that doesn’t contribute to the conversation.
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