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Social Media and the Judiciary

Benjamin HoldenDirector, Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media

Michael S. SommermeyerLead Program Analyst, Supreme Court of Nevada


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Social MediaOpen Communication

Tools

Direct Engagement ofCourt Customers

Facilitates Communication


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RisksEthical Questions

Potential Misuse and Abuse

Your Message May Be Hijacked


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Transform Judicial Transparency

Demonstrate Access to Justice,Equality and Fairness

Learn About Customer Needs

Opportunities


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What I Did Today!


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Social Media Impacts the Judiciary

A juror in Arkansas uses Twitter after a $12 million verdict.

Nine jurors in Florida searched Google for more informationresulting in a mistrial.

A juror in England polled her Facebook friends for advice onhow the case should be decided.

A US District Court Judge (Kansas) allows a reporter to sendTwitter messages (tweets) directly from the courtroom.

8NewsNow (Las Vegas) uses iPhones to videotapedefendants in the courtroom for an iPhone App.


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I just hadto tellsomeone!

Can the genie beput back into the

bottle?


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Social Networking Tenets

Open

Collaborative

Free access

Individual profiles

People Connector

Information Sharing


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If Youre Not Talking, Someone Is

Lawyers using Judgepedia to rank good and badjudges.

Customers complaining about bad service at the CourtClerks Counter.

Employees complaining about customers on Facebook

and Twitter.

Lawyers posting comments about judges on blogs.

Sour types complaining just to complain.


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Court Transparency

Social media is open and transparent.

It reveals process.

It allows for instant feedback.

It is not without risk.


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Judicial Canons and Social Media

Social Media misuse may constitute ex partecommunication.

North Carolina Public Reprimand of Terry, North Carolina Judicial

Standards Commission, Inquiry No. 08-234, April 1, 2009

Social Media does not necessarily result in undue influence.

Ethics Committee of the Kentucky Judiciary, Formal Judicial Ethics Op.

JE-119 (2010)

Judges should be mindful of the appearance created when

[using] a social network.

New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, Op. 08-176 (2009)


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Judges Facebook Page


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Social Media Is Not Going Away

Its human nature to talk about people, services andevents.

Ignore social media at your own peril.

Engagement leads to better relationships.

Traditional media less relevant.

Reach new engaged and empowered audiences.

Constituencies demand more open access and input.


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Consider A Social Media Policy

Develop a court strategy for using social media to

communicate to constituencies.

Develop court policies for using Facebook, Twitter,Tumblr andWiki-sites.

Incorporate policy or best practices into orientation.

Develop social media tools before others do and putwords into your mouth.


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Twitter.com Build community.Facebook.com Involve constituents.

Wordpress.org Create/Distribute Blog content.Linkedin.com Career relationships.Lextweet.com Professional Networking.Google Alerts Monitor Social Media.

TweetBeep.com Monitor Twitter Mentions.

Basic Social Media Tools


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Social Media allows for instant monitoring,opens up communication and can extendother efforts.

Ignore at your peril.

Develop policy in advance and considerpotential misuse.

Rules and strategies required limits areneeded for certain forums.

The Least You Need to Know


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Rapid response needed to be effective.

Social media tools encourage communication.

Use social media tools to engage communitiesand customers.

Tell your story directly to many audiences.

Time intensive and requires diligence.

The Least You Need to Know


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The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's FirstArtists, Gregory Curtis, Random House, 2007, ISBN 1-400-07887-3, p. 230

Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition:

The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis, Esther Herrmann, JosepCall, Mara Victoria Hernndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare, MichaelTomasello, Science Vol. 317. no. 5843, pp. 1360 1366http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5843/1360

Jurors: Keep Your E-Fingers to Yourselves, Eric Sinrod,FindLaw, September 15, 2009

http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2009/09/jurors-keep-your-e-fingers-to-yourselves.html

A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar, JohnSchwartz, The New York Times, September 12, 2009

Notes


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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13lawyers.html?_r=1 http://www.22tweets.com/ http://www.lvcourtsblog.com http://www.twitter.com/NHCourts http://www.facebook.com/ClarkCountyCourts.NV The Supreme Court of Ohio Op. 2010-7, December 3, 2010

North Carolina Public Reprimand of Terry, North CarolinaJudicial Standards Commission, Inquiry No. 08-234, April 1,

2009

Ethics Committee of the Kentucky Judiciary, Formal JudicialEthics Op. JE-119 (2010)

New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, Op. 08-176(2009) New Media and the Courts: The Current Status and A Look at

the Future, Conference of Court Public Information Officers,

August 2010

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