To the extent possible, such Official County Social Media is intended to only serve as a vehicle for government speech to provide guidance from public officials and to provide information about public issues, government actions, government functions, government policies/directives, government and community events and matters of public concern and importance. Such Official Social Media is not inten
ded to function as a blog or as an open
forum for general and indiscriminate discussion of all issues by the public. Such Official County Social Media is also not intended to be interactive and the County will limit or disable such features to preserve the central function of such media, to conserve administrative resources and also to further the policies stated herein. Where such interactive features are limited or disabled, the County will provide the contact information or an email to provide immediate comments to a relevant or designated government official. The County will also provide a link
to the county calendar of meeting schedules. To the extent that interactive components remain enabled for public speech despite this policy, due to limitations in the social media platforms or otherwise, any such forum will be regarded as a limited public forum. In such a forum, the public is invited to submit comments to specific official postings on an
Official County Media site, on which postings are expressly limited to the referenced topics, with the County reserving the right to delete or conceal comments that are not germane to those postings. In such limited public forums, the County permits all germane public comments regardless of the viewpoint expressed provided the comments do not violate applicable terms of the forum, which are outside the control of the County, local, state or federal law, or other constitutionally restricted norms, such as restrictions regarding dangerous misinformation,
threats and fighting words, unlawful speech, harassment, defamation, obscenity, false commercial speech or material integral to criminal activity. Violation of such terms may also lead to the deletion or concealment of comments. All comments on any Official County Social Media site may be deleted or concealed after fourteen (14) day or after the period of any administrative value. The County
may also provide for reasonable time, place and manner guidelines and any other reasonable and viewpoint neutral policies. All threats to harm persons or property will also be recorded and reported to Administration and the Sheriff’s Department. In the event that a comment or writing is deleted or concealed, a copy of the material will be preserved. The person making the comment or writing may appeal this decision within five (5) business days to the Office of the Solicitor, by providing his or her name, contact information, the content of the comment or writing and any necessary or requested information. A determination will be provided within five (5) business days.
