Lauren Herzer Risi, program director in the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center, will moderate a discussion between Gillian Caldwell, agency climate change coordinator and deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. [read post]

Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]