Weber makes a point.

A divided Boston City Council today formally rejected a report from the Boston Police Department on its use of social-media monitoring in the run up to last fall's national elections, that it then restarted using in February, because the department waited until June to let the council know.

The rejection means an oversight board, consisting of representatives from the mayor's office, the council and BPD, along with surveillance experts, will now convene to consider whether BPD appropriately used three social-media tools, including Chorus Intelligence Suite, which lets "users to bulk search an entity across hundreds of social media networks at once" to detect any possible Boston or Massachusetts threats during election season - and whether it should have notified the

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