Social Media Policy:
City agencies share information, images, and video with the public through external social media websites. Users are welcome to submit or post content, including photographs and videos, to an official city site where the agency allows users to post content. The content shall pertain to the subject of the social media site and not violate the comment policy articulated below. R
eproduced or borrowed content that reasonably appears to violate third party rights will be hidden. Users should have no expectation of privacy when posting to a city site. Comments made to these sites are reviewed and, while city personnel will not edit comments, a comment may be hidden if it includes one (1) or more of the following:
1. Obscene, indecent or profane language, pictures, or videos.
2. Threats, personal attacks, or defamatory statements.
3. Hate speech directed at race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, religion, or disability.
4. Fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading information.
5. Comments not related to the posted topic for the city social media page or post.
6. Multiple, successive, off-topic posts by a single user or repetitive posts copied and pasted by multiple users, or spam.
7. Promotion or endorsement of commercial services and products.
8. Comments advocating illegal activity or posting of material that violates copyrights or trademarks of others.