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Ridgewood Mayor and Subordinates Continue to Suppress Public Input

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Ridgewood NJ, it is unbelievable that Vagianos and Winograd are doing everything in their power to control the message, squash public comments, ignore the people who they are elected to serve.  From censoring (hiding?  blocking?) comments on their official Facebook pages, to trying to stop the display of signs at meetings, also cutting off public comments at meetings, stopping (or trying to) residents from naming council members by name, Winograd participating in a highly censored and controlled Facebook group, Vagianos stalling on legal OPRA request fulfillments – the list goes on and on.  And Vagianos scolds everyone before public comments even commence – telling them that they have to be civil and so on.  That is like yelling at your kids when they have not done anything wrong, just in case they MIGHT do something wrong.  We are entitled to FREE AND OPEN speech as long as threats and vulgarity are not part of it.  What are they thinking?

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Ridgewood In the Eye of the Storm: The Supreme Court to decide whether, public officials can legally deny access to individuals who want to post comments to their social media pages

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Limiting Access to Individuals to post on social media pages  has Become the Main stay of Village of Ridgewood Politics 

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Ridgewood NJ, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide when, or whether, public officials who have accounts in social media can legally deny access to individuals who want to post comments. It’s also the issue in a pending suit in San Francisco by a journalist who was blocked from Supervisor Dean Preston’s Twitter account, and similar to suits against then-President Donald Trump for excluding critics from his Twitter platform.

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