can an elected official block my phone number? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by pelletbucket@lemm.ee to c/law@lemmy.world

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I know there's been challenges about elected officials blocking people on social media, but I've got a local elected official who keeps claiming that he's been working on a particular safety issue for like 6 years now. attempting to follow up yet again, I got a response saying that if I continued contacting him, he was going to block my phone number.

we were discussing city business. nothing personal. florida, if it matters

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 4 months ago

NAL

Blocking on social media is a free speech issue, because it prevents you from broadcasting certain types of things in reference to that elected official, so they can't do that

Telling you you can't call them is way different. IDK how much legal weight they may have but it may be quite a bit. Also calling them once they've said they will take legal action is unlikely to influence them to solve the safety issue that is the the original issue.

I would contact the news or a lawyer; it sounds unlikely that following up further with the elected official is a good idea. To me. NAL

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Are you calling his office phone number or his personal cell number?

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I was texting him, and either he uses his personal cell phone as his work phone, or he always carries his work phone on him. other members have city cell phones that they only check during office hours

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