File #: 2013-0223    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/6/2013 In control: Government Accountability and Oversight Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/1/2013
Enactment date: 7/12/2013 Enactment #: 17615
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to requiring the development of training materials for the use of social media technologies; and amending Ordinance 17008, Section 6, and K.C.C. 2.14.050.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Indexes: Technology
Code sections: 2.14.050 - .
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17615.pdf, 2. Social Media 2012-0223 Staff Report 6-25-13.docx, 3. 2013-0223 attachment 2 Social Media Training_Employeesfinal.pptx
Staff: Giambattista, Jenny
Drafter
Clerk 05/01/2013
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to requiring the development of training materials for the use of social media technologies; and amending Ordinance 17008, Section 6, and K.C.C. 2.14.050.
Body
      BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
      SECTION 1.  Ordinance 17008, Section 6, and K.C.C. 2.14.050 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
      A.  King County is committed to using social media technologies in a manner that:
        1.  Is efficient and economical;
        2.  Promotes open government and an informed citizenry;
        3.  Protects individual privacy; and
        4.  Meets county record retention and disposition standards developed for social media.
      B.  The department of information technology shall develop training materials for the use of social media technologies that include discussion of issues relating to security and privacy, risk management, ethics and records retention.  The training materials shall be made available to all county employees electronically and online.
      C.  Each agency should consider the use of social media in its outreach to the public.  If an agency determines that social media is appropriate for the agency, the agency shall:
        1.  Identify those personnel that are authorized to use social media to conduct county business; and
        2.  Ensure that all ((such)) authorized users review the training described ((in Ordinance 17008, Section 5.A)) subsection B. of this section.