The purpose of this page is to provide people who live and work in Douglas County, Kansas, or others with an interest in DGSO, access to information about the Sheriff's Office. Before posting on this page, please review the following terms and conditions of use. A posting on this page constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions:
This page is NOT monitored 24 hours a day
but is reviewed daily during business hours. Do not use this page to report a crime. In case of emergency, dial 911. We have received questions about hidden comments on Facebook posts. These are settings we have implemented via suggested practices from Facebook. To keep comments relevant to topics in individual posts and to prevent spam and other potential security threats to users on DGSO social media sites, we have settings on Facebook that include comments made by members of the public and are set to auto-hide if they include the following:
- Comments containing profanity.
- Comment that include an external link. Limiting comments with external links can help prevent spam and keep comments relevant to individual posts.
- The comment’s author does not have a profile picture.
- The author of the comment or post does not have any friends or followers. Note any comment that meets one of these criteria are not deleted but hidden. Otherwise, all comments will be reviewed to be consistent with the purpose of this page. Comments are also subject to Facebook’s Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. DGSO is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to this page. Comments posted also do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of the DGSO. Please show respect to those you are addressing when submitting comments. We reserve the right, but assume no obligation, to remove comments or photos that:
- defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others;
-include defamation, threats, obscenity, violence, vulgarity or s*xual content;
-spam, advertise or solicit commerce or promote or encourage illegal activity;
-promote, foster or perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, national origin, gender or s*x, s*xual orientation or disability;
-have personal information about another person or that violate a person's privacy;
-include copyrighted material that belongs to another person or entity;
-contain confidential information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or any member of the DGSO. We also reserve the right to block users that continue to post comments that fall under the previously mentioned reasons for post/comment deletion. If you post information related to a crime on this page, you may be placing yourself in the position of becoming a witness in court proceedings. While the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will not be collecting or retaining these comments in our records, this is a limited public forum and any information provided in comments may be publicly available on Facebook and the privacy policies of Facebook apply. As such, please do not include personal details such as: case number, social security number, or any other information you do not want available to the general public. If you choose to post personal information, you do so at your own risk. Comments posted by others on the DGSO page are not to be considered the opinion of the DGSO. Photo Policy
Facebook users may post photos on this site to share with the general public. Users may only upload photos for which they own the copyright. By uploading a photo, the user acknowledges that he/she owns the copyright to the photo and grants the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office a royalty free unconditional license to post the photo on this site and to provide a copy of the photo in paper or electronic format to any entity if required by Kansas Law. We do not hold any intellectual property rights to the images others post on this site. If any entity wishes to use one of these images for any purpose they must seek permission from the copyright holder. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, however, does hold the rights to the images that we post on this site. If any entity wishes to use one of these images for any purpose they must seek permission from the DGSO.
