Yorktown Police Facebook page Temporarily Disabled

Yorktown Police officials got an unpleasant surprise on Wednesday when they discovered that their Facebook page was disabled for almost 24 hours.

The disruption of service came to the department’s attention when the police received a message from Facebook that the page was unpublished. On Thursday morning, Facebook restored the department’s with no explanation for the temporary outage.

“We were given the option to request a review and we did. No specific reason was provided, and we have no idea why this happened,” said Chief Robert Noble.

On Wednesday, the Town Board sent a letter to Facebook asking that the police’s Facebook page be restored.

“The suspension of this account without any notice or explanation has hampered the police department’s ability to communicate with our residents and this comes on the heels of a severe storm that left thousands of people without power last night into this morning,” stated the Town Board’s letter. “On behalf of our residents we demand the account be restored immediately.”

A copy of the Town Board’s letter is attached.