By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Communication with the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department on Facebook will be difficult for an unknown amount of time.
Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett says he received notice recently that Facebook took the department’s page down for what it claims to be for violating its community standards.
"Obviously we use that as one forum to communicate with our citizens and the last thing we posted was an acknowledgement of the outstanding job of our admin aides and put their pictures up so I don't know how in the world that would have violated community standards," Puett tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr.
"But we have appealed that, but we haven't heard anything yet."
Puett says he's received no specific word about what triggered Facebook to take the page down.
"Until they decide to reinstate us or if they reinstate us, I don't know what the process is, there was no warning it was just removed for violating a community standard," Puett explains. "So, I don't know what that means."
Puett says it's important for the community to know his office is not avoiding communicating with them through the social media platform.
"We obviously try to be as transparent and get as much information out as possible, but it makes it really difficult when the forum is not available to us," Puett says.
Puett says he and his team take communication with the community very seriously and are working to try to get its Facebook page back up for use.