The City social media pages and all content published are subject to monitoring. User-generated posts may be rejected or removed at the sole discretion of the City when the content:
- Violates the social media platform’s terms of use
- Is not related to the particular content being comment upon
- Refers to City employees by name
- Promotes or advertises commercial services, entities, or products
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Supports or opposes political candidates or ballot propositions
- Is obscene, profane, or vulgar and/or includes or provides links to sexual content
- Discusses, encourages, or constitutes illegal activity
- Promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, socioeconomic status, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation
- Provides information that compromises the safety or security of the public or
public systems, or includes threatening, harassing, or personal attacks against any individual or entity
- Content that violates or appears to infringe upon a legal ownership interest of any other party
The City reserves the right to restrict or remove any content that is deemed in violation of this social media policy or any applicable law. The City reserves the right to remove any content with or without notice to the author. The City also reserve the right to ban or block any user that repeatedly (more than once) violates the guidelines listed above. Any content removed based on these guidelines must be retained for a maximum of three years (the statute of limitations under 42 USC 1983 for violation of First Amendment rights), including the time, date and identity of the poster when available. The City may include links to the official city website as well as links to third-party external sites. The third-party links the city may include are limited to those that meet the City’s governmental purpose. Third-party external sites are not under the control of the City and the City is not responsible for the content of any third-party external site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The City does not imply endorsement by the City or any association with their operators. All information content and images, including the city logo/seal generated by the City and provided on any City social media profile are the property of the City, proprietary in nature and protected by applicable trademarks and copyright laws.
