With a social media-engorged election season on the horizon, the Interior Department's employees are beingcautioned about the rules that govern partisan political behavior.In a memo sent yesterday to all of the department's approximately 70,000 workers, Interior chief of staff ToddWillens hammered home the Hatch Act's restrictions that apply to Facebook and Twitter postings as well as moreold-school activities undertaken by federal employees."It is imperative that Department employees maintain the public's trust that the Federal programs and activitiesundertaken by the Department will continue to be administered in a nonpartisan manner," Willens wrote.The Hatch Act generally bans federal employees from engaging in political activities while on duty, in uniform or ina government building. Tighter restrictions apply to administrative law judges and members of the SeniorExecutive Service, such as national park superintendents.
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