UPDATE 1:35 PM: Erie County Executive Brenton Davis told us the page was unpublished by his team. That means it was temporarily hidden from public view.
Thursday afternoon, Davis said he republished the page but does not plan to post anything on the official Facebook page for the rest of his term.
Davis says he has turned over access to the county’s interim IT director, and Christina Vogel’s administration can take over once she is sworn in on Monday.
(WJET/WFXP)– It’s a curious case of a disappearing Facebook page. The Erie County Government official Facebook page seemingly vanished from the internet leading up to the new year.
As of January 1, the official Erie County Government Facebook page, which has thousands of followers, is unavailable, either through search or direct link.
Erie County Councilman Rock Copeland first noted the page’s absence on December 29 in a post of his own.
We reached out to Erie County Executive Brenton Davis and Erie County Executive-Elect Christina Vogel’s team, who both said they don’t know what happened to the page.
The Brenton Davis Administration is still in charge of Erie County Government until Vogel is sworn in on January 5.
This is a developing story; more details will be provided as they become available.
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