Here’s a quote from Senate President Shan Tsutsui:

The recent growth of social media use to communicate with government officials and organizations underscores the importance for government agencies to incorporate social media services (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr) as integral components to governments’ overarching communication initiatives. At the same time, it is equally vital that we, as agencies and representatives, harness the potential of these tools in the most appropriate and responsible manner. That’s what this policy guides us to do.

A quick scan of the new policy suggests it’s pretty thorough. Example:

Senate issued computers, laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, or wireless facility used  for social media shall have up-to-date software to protect against destructive technical incidents, including but not limited to cyber, virus, and spyware/adware attacks.