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Overview

Public agencies are dealing with legal threats from employees' email, texts, blogs, websites and posts to social networking sites. When agency employees go online, they can create a disturbing array of legal risks for you based on what they post and write that may hurt your agency's reputation in the community or in the courtroom. Harassing, retaliatory or defamatory comments by employees that you would never tolerate inside the workplace can be much more difficult to control when they're posted on the Internet.

• Legal risks and responsibilities involving misuse of electronic communications, social media, activities, agency monitoring and legally required records production. 

• The importance of a strong HR and risk management role in enforcing digital communications policies.

• How to enact and enforce a social media policy that protects both employee and employer interests.

• Why it is critical to train managers and supervisors to enforce a social media policy and what your training should include.

• The nuts and bolts of complying with the California Public Records Act, including hard copy and electronic records: What you must produce in response to a public records request, who pays for the costs of copying, and key timelines for meeting the “prompt access” requirements.

• Major new regulatory and judicial developments under the Public Records Act, including email exchanges among elected officials;

• Review of Updated CFRA case law
• Records Retention and Disposal Policies
• Documents that are subject to pre-trial discovery in civil litigation, particularly email and digital data, including why metadata, and why is it a key element of electronic media discovery.

• When the duty to “preserve” electronic communications is triggered and why “litigation holds” are critically important to your district’s response to threatened or actual litigation.

• What to tell your employees about litigation holds and potential disclosure of electronically generated communications.

• Special privacy challenges with acquiring, filing and accessing digital data and electronic medical records.

Additional Information: 

• Webcasts are free to current members of CSAC EIA and their employees.  If you have any questions, please contact Maria Blanco at mblanco@csac-eia.org for more information.
• There is no limit on how many of your organization's employees view our webcasts.  Please feel free to share the link for this session.

Need More Info or Help?
We hope you can join us. Feel free to contact Maria Blanco for more details.

Phone: 916-850-7300
Email: mblanco@csac-eia.org