{"id":32990,"date":"2016-10-05T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/employee-who-posted-trump-related-tweets-on-agency-feed-gone\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:04:49","slug":"employee-who-posted-trump-related-tweets-on-agency-feed-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/employee-who-posted-trump-related-tweets-on-agency-feed-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee who posted Trump-related tweets on agency feed gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUNEAU \u2014 An Alaska health department employee who posted political comments aimed at Donald Trump on the agency\u2019s Twitter feed last week is no longer with the department.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the department said the employee was at home and not on work time when the comments were posted but made \u201cinadvertent use of state resources to send partisan political messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department previously apologized for the incident, and the tweets, posted during a presidential debate, were deleted.<\/p>\n

The department has not publicly identified the employee, saying this is a personnel matter, and did not provide details surrounding the person\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

The department said it will review its social media policies and that only the public information office manager will now have the ability to post to the department\u2019s Twitter feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JUNEAU \u2014 An Alaska health<\/a> department employee who posted political comments aimed at Donald Trump on the agency\u2019s Twitter feed last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, the department said the employee was at home and not on work time when the comments were posted but made \u201cinadvertent use of state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32990"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}