Two Washington agencies—Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office—can no longer hide or delete comments on Facebook that may be critical of their agencies, two federal judges have ruled.
Jim Leighty, a local activist, filed two federal lawsuits last year claiming both agencies deleted or hid critical comments he had written below multiple posts, while keeping comments that were pro-police in nature, the Spokesman reports. The rules the agencies followed to hide comments or delete comments were also inconsistent and not applied 100% of the time, according to the lawsuit.




