Post Preserve
Post Preserve gathers and archives your organization's social‑media posts in real time, stores them in your cloud bucket, and ships a FOIA or Sunshine-law ready export with one click.
Why you need a social media archive
In Linkde V. Freed, the Supreme court ruled that a public offical's social media activites can be considered state action, and that officials deleting comments on their personal or professional page can be a violation of the first amendment. more details
Municipalities now have liability to FOIA/Sunshine requests and lawsuits for their social media activity. Resolving these lawsuits will be near-impossible without a digital archive
Screenshotting is not enough
On 30 June 2024, OMB/NARA Memorandum M‑23‑07 decreed that records must be born‑digital, complete with metadata. Without metadata, records are insufficient to prove that officials have not edited posts or deleted comments
Our service
We collaborate with Facebook, Instagram, X, Linkedin, Nextdoor and more, to gather and store a digital record of all social media activity on accounts relevant to our Municipalities. When necessary, we provide a FOIA/Sunshine-ready export in one click
Costs of Noncompliance
Chicago Alderman Jim Gardiner just paid $157,500 to settle a first‑Amendment suit for blocking critics on his ward’s Facebook page. The city spent months piecing together missing comments. Even if comments had not been deleted, those after-the-fact records would have been insufficient to prove innocence. Read More
A school board chair was found to have violated the First Amendment by deleting comments and banning a critic from her official Facebook page; court deemed the page a public forum. Defending against such claims requires an archive that can prove deleting and blocking did not occur. Read More
Parents sued after being blocked on Facebook/Twitter; Ninth Circuit (and later SCOTUS) held trustees were acting lawfully. However, The trustees had to reconstruct deleted blocks and hidden replies—an agonizing and unreliable process that an automated archive would have solved instantly. Read More
Federal judges issued injunctions prohibiting Spokane and Bonner County Sheriff’s offices from hiding or deleting critical Facebook comments and ordered the payment of 183k to plaintiffs after First‑Amendment suits by local residents. Read More
Cities with Social-Media Archives
Lancaster County, NE is spending up to $10k annually on a social media archive
Nashville, TN is spending $250/month
Kootenai County, ID (Search PageFreezer)
Portland, OR (Search PageFreezer)
Dallas Fortworth, TX (Search PageFreezer)
Renton, WA spending $1272
Waconia, MN
South El Monte, CA
East Wenatchee, WA spending $3,588
Brecksville, OH
South Ogden City, UT
Austin, TX
Why Us?
$100/Month
While our competitors charge $250-$10000, we charge $100/m for reliable, quality service.
To create a quality archive in-house would cost at least $100/m in fixed costs from working with APIs
Monitoring of official and unoffical accounts alike
Personal support from a small organization fully focused on social media archiving
Competitive rates for small and large governmental organizations alike
Archives meet or exceed M‑23‑07 electronic‑records guidelines.
Offering free trial of 1 Month of service free-of-charge
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