{"id":8765,"date":"2022-05-27T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:28:20","slug":"encinitas-mayor-and-state-senate-candidate-catherine-blakespear-sued-again-for-blocking-people-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8765","title":{"rendered":"Encinitas Mayor and State Senate Candidate Catherine Blakespear Sued Again for Blocking People On Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Lev Finzi<\/p>\n

The Mayor of Encinitas has been recently under fire due to her campaign page on Facebook after she had not complied with a previous settlement agreement. Her page began blocking all the people related to the agreement, and soon after that, the lawsuits followed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catherine Blakespear is the current Mayor of Encinitas. At the moment she is running for 38th State Senate District seat. Recently, users had left non-threatening and not harassing comments on that page. The users reported that the comments had been deleted and blocked. The comments only included questions, concerns, and slight criticism of Blakespear.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

After the accusations came in, users filed a Tort Claim with the city of Encinitas,<\/a> which is what one would do to begin to file a lawsuit against a public figure or government employee.<\/span><\/p>\n

The leader of the group, Robert Nichols is the former chairman of the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project. They sent a cease-and-desist to Blakespear, in which both entities found a middle ground in a settlement agreement. Nichols reported that an approximated 30 users had been blocked from Blakespear’s page, and a select few of the users were individuals such as a local firefighter and the former Encinitas Union School Board candidate Matt Wheeler.<\/span><\/p>\n

She agreed to the terms of the settlement, in which she would be required to pay a 5,000 dollar fine to the attorneys and users, issue a public apology, and unblock all the users that she had blocked previously. Blakespear had gone to Facebook to write out her 10-paragraph-long apology.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In her Facebook post, she apologizes to \u201c<\/span>anyone who didn\u2019t have full access to [her] campaign Facebook page or other social media accounts,\u201d.<\/span> She mentions that her page was not a government-run social media account and that it was only used for campaigning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The post gained a large amount of attention with 600 comments from people who had been blocked and people claiming that the apology was not genuine. Jebidiah Stuber, resident in Encinitas commented \u201c<\/span>I was blocked for simply asking for you to outline your \u2018real solution to homelessness\u2019 because I know that you do not have one,\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Cred: Fox 5 San Diego<\/p>\n

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