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Where job or business needs demand immediate access to an Employee, the LSBA may issue a
business cell phone, smart phone and/or a personal handheld device to an Employee for work-related
communications. Employees in possession of LSBA equipment are expected to protect the equipment
from loss, damage or theft. Upon resignation or termination of employment, or at any time upon
request, the Employee will be asked to produce the equipment for return.

2.21 SOCIAL NETWORKING

Employees who use social networking websites should be aware that content created or circulated by
the employee may be published elsewhere through a third party. Employees must be smart about what
content they publish online. Published content may ultimately be viewed by LSBA Members,
including, but not limited to, attorneys and judges. Employees must exercise appropriate discretion
when using social networks for personal communications (friends, colleagues, attorneys, judges, etc.)
with the knowledge that adult behavior on social networks may be viewed by Members of the legal
profession as well as the public.

This policy applies to all forms of web-based external, commercial, non-educational online publishing,
messaging and discussion websites, including such media as blogs, wikis, file-sharing, user-generated
video and audio, virtual worlds and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
YouTube.com, etc. Social networks do not include websites or software provided internally by the

LSBA.
Employees who become aware of any violations of this policy are expected to immediately inform
their supervisor. Violations of this policy will result in discipline, up to and including termination of
employment with the LSBA.

Communicating on Behalf of the Company

The LSBA fully respects the legal rights of its Employees, and in general, what Employees do on their
own time is their business. However, activities inside or outside of work that affect an Employee’s job
performance, the performance of others, or the LSBA’s business interests are a proper focus for the
LSBA. As a condition of at-will employment, the LSBA requires that Employees observe the rules
included in this section of the Handbook, which are intended to protect Employees as well as the
LSBA.

Employees are personally responsible for what they publish on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, or any other
form of user-generated media. What Employees post will be public for an indefinite period of time.
Therefore, Employees should guard their privacy and that of family and friends, and should think
carefully before sending something into cyberspace that will be impossible to erase.

When the LSBA wishes to communicate publicly - whether to its members or to the general public - it
has well-established means to do so. Only those who are specifically designated by the LSBA have the
authorization to speak on behalf of the LSBA in any medium.

Other Communications

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