Social Media Policy for Public Safety Agency: A Case Study

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1CASE STUDY
The social media policy of a public safety agency outlines how the agency and the
employees of the agency should initiate conduction in online (Perrin, 2015). Being the chief to
the agency, it is the responsibility of him to provide feedback for inspiration of cases in the
current practices of the social media activities of the employees of the agency. The head of the
Internal Affairs Unit of the agency furthermore believe in negativity from any and all of social
media activities.
Policy – The employees of the public agency should use the platform of social media only for the
purpose of official government communication (Obar & Wildman, 2015). The personal use of
social media in the public safety agency is strictly banned. Employees making contribution and
comments on behalf of the agency should do it only with the authority of the agency chief. It is
to be remembered that when contributing on the behalf of the government and the public safety
agency all the employees of the organization should keep their postings, legal, ethical and
respectful. No personal thoughts should be posted in the agency websites.
Explanation – According to the personal insight of the chief of the Internal Affairs unit of the
public safety agency, the usage of the social media in the workplace is generally a hindrance
towards the productivity because the use of the platform of social media tends to lead too much
of the personal use. The scope and the purpose of the policy stated above depicts some of the
basic guidelines that needs to be followed across all the forms of social media usage (Guo &
Saxton, 2014). The agency banned the use of social media in the workplace so that no wrong
message is conveyed to the general public. Since the agency works in the domain of public
safety, it is important for them to note the safety and the factors that might affects the safety
process of the public in general. Any wrong comments due to the personal experiences by the
employees of the agency in the platform of social media might make the agency fall under the