SACRAMENTO — In the fast-evolving arena of employment law and social media, the city of Bozeman, Mont., became ground zero three years ago.

That’s when someone alerted reporters the city was asking for job applicants’ social media passwords — the keys, essentially, to their Facebook and Twitter accounts — so, as one city official explained, Bozeman could ensure it was hiring those “of the highest moral character.”

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