FOI to Hear Evidence on Landmark Case on Social Media as Protected Public Documents.

A big day Tuesday at the Freedom of Information Commission as a case regarding a public agency’s use of social media resumes before a hearing officer. The case involved a public agency’s duty to preserve and make available those postings as routine public documents under Connecticut’s far reaching Freedom of Information Act. The underlying matter arises out the application of state law to a Native American payday loan operation.

The hearing is likely to include where social media posts went and at whose direction or advice. Combustible stuff.