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Council Member Brewer explains the importance of Introduction 564-A on archiving social media posts
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer discusses Introduction 564-A, which requires DORIS to maintain a database of social media posts from government officials and agencies. She emphasizes the importance of archives and recounts her past efforts to keep DORIS as a separate agency.
- Brewer explains that social media posts are now considered official government records
- She praises Commissioner Pauline Toole and highlights the significance of maintaining city archives
- Brewer shares her personal history of advocating for DORIS to remain an independent agency
Gale A. Brewer
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Thank you very much, chair Wressler.
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And, yes, as you suggested, this is five six four is really about social media posts because they are now official government records.
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Five six four requires DORIS, which is both records and the municipal library, to maintain a publicly accessible and searchable online database of the social media posts and websites of government officials, and requires city agencies and officials to provide DORIS with a list of each social media account in use.
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I do wanna thank Pauline Toole, who is a commissioner and a great commissioner at that.
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And the reason I'm so supportive of this is I believe in archives.
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When I was in the city council previously, to the credit of, mayor Bloomberg, he was trying to save money, so he was going to incorporate Doris into DCAS.
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I was then chair of government operations.
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I had a fit.
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And then when de Blasio came in, to his credit, he undid any operational merger.
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So today, we have a separate agency.
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And I learned, as a result, having met with literally every archivist in the city, if not the state of New York, and trying to keep the two agencies separate, the importance of our archives.
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And I just wanna shout out to all the people in the past, and I know who they are, who have not given their papers to Doris.
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This would also add the social media accounts.
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Thank you very much.