Legal and Practical Issues for Website Managers

Accessible from virtually anywhere, creatable by virtually anyone, and able to provide virtually any kind of digital, infinitely copy-able content, Internet websites present a myriad of legal issues for all website owners to consider. Websites operated by a government entity — with which we are concerned here — implicate additional, important constitutional and statutory obligations that are not applicable to private entities. As a means for providing government information, communicating more directly with citizens, and for providing efficient government services, such websites obviously hold great promise. However, government entities that do so should be aware that this new tool for citizen interaction carries with it the potential for legal entanglement  on several fronts.

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