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Ridgewood, NJ — Village Manager Keith Kazmark has addressed recent allegations that the Village of Ridgewood was removing or “scrubbing” comments from its official Facebook pages, clarifying that the comment in question was not deleted by the municipality.
The Allegation
Concerns were raised after a resident claimed that a comment by Daniel Mazziotta had been removed from the Village’s Facebook page. Some residents feared this was part of a broader effort to censor community feedback on official platforms.
Kazmark’s Investigation
Kazmark conducted an internal review and determined that the missing comment was not deleted by Village staff. Instead, he explained that the issue stemmed from the commenter’s own Facebook settings.
“After investigating the matter, it turns out the poster of the ‘missing’ comment… has either hidden, deleted, or altered his settings on his Facebook page, which makes the comment unseen to Facebook users,” Kazmark said.
He noted that while the comment remains visible through the Manager’s official archiving process, it cannot be viewed from his personal account or by the general public.
Evidence Presented
Kazmark shared screenshots as proof, showing:
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The comment still visible from the Manager’s archived page.
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The commenter’s landing page displaying “content unavailable.”
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Backend settings demonstrating that no content was hidden or deleted by the Village.
Village Policy on Social Media Posts
Kazmark reiterated Ridgewood’s policy regarding Facebook moderation:
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No posts are removed by the Village except in rare cases involving offensive or inappropriate content.
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All posts, even those hidden due to content violations, are maintained through archival software to comply with the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA).
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OPRA requires public records to be available through formal requests, but it does not regulate what remains visible on social media.
Community Transparency
Kazmark emphasized that the Village is committed to maintaining transparency and ensuring residents’ voices are preserved, even if some content becomes hidden due to user settings.
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James: Did Mr. Kazmark offer any explanation as to why previously posted information was deleted in connection with the former parking enforcement agent’s arrest and termination?
Perhaps photos of the parking enforcement agent met this criteria:
“No posts are removed by the Village except in rare cases involving offensive or inappropriate content.”
There was nothing inappropriate about the photograph of the parking enforcement officer. It was the typical gladhanding big smile photo when somebody knew gets hired. What’s inappropriate is that they took it down. Trying to change history.
Hahahahaha
no reason given for the dumb blond’s invisible fb page though
I don’t trust our VM. We should all be cautious. Just my opinion.
Bullshit.
Great job James. You’ve got him backed into a corner now. No way for him to explain what happened to the PEO photos or blondie’s phantom FB page.
Great job James. Keith is such a jerk, trying to defend himself when he is so obviously skirting the law.
It is not the first time and won’t be the last, sadly. They can explain it up, down and sideways and residents will figure outIf they have not already that this village manager is marching to the beat of the mayor’s drum. It wasn’t that long ago that Mayor aul Vagianos had his guy, jason delesi from tap into purposely.Hide or filter out comments made by the public on his own mayoral facebook page.This was proven, and there was an article written about it that had something to do with pink, slime journalism.
Here’s the article about pink slime journalism:
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/08/political-connections-of-local-news-owners-spur-suspicion-distrust/
It’s amazing how this mayor council manager are not addressing the issue regarding the health and well-being of our employees past and present on the contaminated soil, we don’t know if anyone was contaminated, they are not being proactive with sending all the employees to get tested why is that. They’re admitting that they have contamination on their property. They know that village employees handled touched and breathe the contamination into their system. Are they playing the waiting game, because that’s what it is the game of bullshit, they know they have to remove the soil, which is a cost cup of 2 million, well they need to prepare and prepared for health screening, the dust got penetrated individuals, lungs or bloodstream, no one knows until they get tested. At least that would be proactive in doing so. Because if they wait down the road and his old new mayor council manager and they’ll play the new game oh we don’t know, that was previous administration. It doesn’t matter down the road the village will have to deal with this. They will be responsible in the end. So to avoid for the problems, just send the employees to get tested. It’s that simple.
Or looking more deeply into contamination at Habernickel. Especially when they took that old barn down and before they poured all that. Event for the pavilion. Was it to cover up contamination? Did they test before the poured?
So Kazmark is now submitting articles to the blog. Wow. LONG LIVE THE BLOG.
Facebook 101 for you Keith
If the admin of the account can see the comment but the general public cannot then it’s hidden by the fu..king admin of the page, and NOT the commenter!!!
Go learn something that’s worthy of your 250k paycheck and 150k assistant.
Hahahaha
What’s the story about the Blondie referred in the comments?
I am curious 🤔
Councilperson Winograd has chosen to take her official Facebook page offline. The only way for members of the public have access to previously posted information and comments is by submitting an Open Public Records Act request. There is no online access to that information.
Has anyone reached out to Mr. Daniel Mazziotta to confirm that he did indeed change his profile settings?
Thin skin…such an insecure guy
In the wrong line of work if he can’t take criticism