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Citizen journalism has a cost

Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion. Real peo­ple with drive and curios­ity can report news and write analy­sis, regard­less of their educations. As such, cit­i­zen report­ing is a good thing because I gen­er­ally think “the more infor­ma­tion to work with, the [...]
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City of Bozeman releases report on hiring policy investigation

The City of Bozeman on Friday released the results of a consultant’s inves­ti­ga­tion into its hir­ing prac­tices. I haven’t had time to read it yet, but I thought I’d post the report here in the meantime. Original link to city site Report on inves­ti­ga­tion into City of Bozeman hir­ing prac­tices
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More on police officer’s resignation over his Facebook comments

Just a few more details to add to the story today, thanks to the report in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The Bozeman Police Department is say­ing that Anderson was not asked to quit. Police Chief Mark Tymrak said at a press con­fer­ence Thursday that it was “a deci­sion on Mr. Anderson’s part.” Tymrak went on: It’s a real [...]
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Bozeman police officer resigns over comments he made on Facebook

Police officer Cody Anderson, whose controversial comments on his Facebook profile came to light last month, resigned from the Bozeman Police Department.
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Montana ACLU congratulates Bozeman for rescinding password policy

The ACLU of Montana con­grat­u­lated the City of Bozeman for rescind­ing its pass­word pol­icy in an undated state­ment posted to the organization’s Web site. “While an employer can (and likely should dur­ing the course of a back­ground check) view an applicant’s pub­lic pro­file on online sites, demand­ing access to infor­ma­tion that appli­cant has set to pri­vate — [...]
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