{"id":3019,"date":"2022-01-29T13:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/fearing-tips-could-get-lost-sheriff-halts-facebook-comments-associated-press\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T12:19:01","slug":"fearing-tips-could-get-lost-sheriff-halts-facebook-comments-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/fearing-tips-could-get-lost-sheriff-halts-facebook-comments-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearing tips could get lost, sheriff halts Facebook comments &#8211; Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida sheriff\u2019s office has turned off public comments on its social media posts because authorities said too many people are reporting crimes there rather than calling 911 or submitting tips through the agency\u2019s website.<br \/>The Pasco County Sheriff\u2019s Office has for years maintained popular accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, capitalizing on the popularity it gained from the A&amp;E show \u201cLive PD\u201d and securing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/crime\/2019\/11\/14\/pasco-sheriffs-office-copyrights-its-nationally-known-9-pm-routine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">copyright for the hashtag #9pmroutine<\/a><!-- -->, which is a nightly reminder for people to lock up their cars and houses, the Tampa Bay Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/pasco\/2022\/01\/27\/pasco-sheriff-cuts-off-social-media-comments-victim-of-his-own-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">reported.<\/a><br \/>The agency has some 300,000 followers on Facebook and about 131,000 on Twitter, in a county with 583,000 residents.<br \/>In a Facebook post on Monday, Sheriff Chris Nocco said they will no longer allow public comment out of fear that the agency could miss \u201clife-or-death\u201d information.<br \/>\u201cSocial media was not designed for that purpose,\u201d Sheriff Chris Nocco said the in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pascosheriff\/posts\/303936475091922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">post<\/a><!-- -->. \u201cTo be clear, this was not a decision we take lightly.\u201d<br \/>The change was prompted after his three-member public information team began posting more social media notices about missing persons and runaway teens, Nocco said. These posts drew overwhelming comments from people reporting crimes and leaving tips in social media threads.<br \/>\u201cHowever, with the continued growth in our county and the need to continue to provide resources to serve our growing population, there was not a possibility to hire the people that would be required to monitor our social media platforms on a consistent, 24\/7 basis for 365 days a year,\u201d he said.<br \/>Some criticized the decision before the comments were cut off, according to the Tampa Bay Times.<br \/>\u201cIf people weren\u2019t comfortable using the other formats to leave tips before, they won\u2019t be comfortable with it now. It will just leave you with less tips,\u201d one user wrote.<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s almost like you want to discourage people from providing information,\u201d another user wrote.<br \/>The sheriff also noted the \u201cunfortunate growth in negative and hurtful comments, especially directed to runaways.\u201d<br \/>He said that these kinds of comments can be \u201churtful to those individuals and their families who are often looking for needed assistance.\u201d<br \/>\u201cImagine, just for a moment, if that was your loved one that had gone missing and you are desperate to find them but, instead of seeing help, you see commentary asking about their upbringing, their looks or the type of picture that was provided to law enforcement,\u201d the sheriff wrote.<br \/>While the social media platforms will be a one-way communication tool for now, spokeswoman Amanda Hunter told the Times they\u2019ll also provide breaking news updates through a new blog-style website \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.pascosheriff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">news.pascosheriff.com<\/a><!-- -->.<br \/>And in an emergency, she notes, the public should always call 911 for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-media-crime-tampa-social-media-2490fb7f9a1b56f5f66c2aa5e803bdc5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida sheriff\u2019s office has turned off public comments on its social media posts because authorities said too many people are reporting crimes there rather than calling 911 or submitting tips through the agency\u2019s website.The Pasco County Sheriff\u2019s Office has for years maintained popular accounts on Facebook, Twitter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}