Blakely Police Department

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ll 9-1-1. This page is not monitored 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. By posting or commenting on this page, you participate by your own choice, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username and any information you provide therein. The Blakely Police Department’s social media profile and pages are a family-friendly outlet to promote our agency’s activity, events, and programs; providing relevant and timely community news, information and events; distribution of crime prevention, and public safety tips; urgent notifications of critical incidents which may affect borough residents, business owners and visitors; and interacting with those people having an interest in the Blakely Borough Police Department, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The purpose of this site is to present matters of public interest to the residents of the Blakely Borough, Lackawanna County Pennsylvania. We encourage you to submit comments, but please note this is NOT a public forum. We also encourage you to ask questions and share comments on any of our activities and postings. Our social media team monitors this profile and pages but is NOT responsible for content generated by users. We accept the majority of comments but are not obligated to respond to comments. The Blakely Police Department requires ALL posts to this page adhere to Facebook’s Community Standards located at http://www.facebook.com/communitystandards and reserves the right to report any standards violation to Facebook with the intent of Facebook taking appropriate and reasonable responsive action. We use platform-provided content moderation/filtering options to limit foul or obscene content. We will also monitor and remove inappropriate content as defined below, without prior notice, and as soon as possible. We do not discriminate against views but will remove any posts of inappropriate material as determined by us in our sole and complete discretion. This material may include, but is not limited to:

 Comments not related to the original topic, including random or intelligible comments;

 Profane, obscene, or pornographic content and/or language;

 Content that promotes, fosters or perpetuates a hostile work environment or other types of discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, or national origin;

 Defamatory or personal attacks;

 Encouragement of violence or threats to any person or organization;

 Comments in support of, or in opposition to, any political campaigns or ballot measures;

 Solicitation of commerce, including but not limited to advertising of any business or product for sale;

 Encouragement of illegal activity;

 Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;

 Content that violates a legal ownership interest, such as a copyright, of any party;

 Harassment or content which constitutes and/or facilities stalking;

 Content which violates the right to privacy;

 Repetitive content;

 Comments which may reasonably interfere with, inhibit, or compromise law enforcement investigations, tactics, responses to incidents and/or the safety of law enforcement officers and staff;

 Posts or comments that transmit viruses or other disruptive or destructive files, materials or code. Repeated violations of our comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the Blakely Police Department’s social media page at any time without prior notice. In addition, should you (the end user) be formally charged with a criminal offense or be arrested in connection with a criminal offense, your image and identifying information along with details of the offense may be displayed on our social media page. By ‘LIKING” and/or “INTERACTING” with our page, you agree to the above terms. Please contact Chief Salerno with any questions