Reporting on third-party public communications.

This bill would require any public servant that uses or authorizes the use of governmental funds or resources for a third-party public communication to report certain information regarding such communication to the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) within 60 days. Third-party public communications would include any content posted on an internet website, digital application, or social media platform where the author of the content is not a public servant or city agency, or the author is not clearly identified as a public servant or city agency. On a quarterly basis during an election year and twice a year during a non-election year, DORIS would be required to report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post on the NYC Open Data portal, all information reported to it regarding the third-party public communications.