Facebook Terms of Use
Welcome to the Montana Highway Patrol’s official page. Please be aware that this page is not designated for reporting incidents or emergencies. If this is an emergency, please dial 9-1-1 immediately. We encourage you to read our Terms of Use before participating or commenting on this page. Thank you. Terms of Use
This page is an online discussion site and is monitor
ed by MHP’s social media team. It is not a public forum. It’s consistently monitored during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 8-5PM. This page is monitored only periodically outside of regular business hours and on weekends and holidays. Please be aware of the following:
The opinions expressed by visitors on this page along with all user content do not necessarily reflect the views of this agency, its employees or the State of Montana. Comments are moderated. Comments will not be edited by our personnel, but MHP reserves the right to remove comments that include:
• Obscenity including racial slurs
• Threats or “Fighting Words”
• Incitement to imminent lawless action
• Solicitations to commit, or speech integral to, criminal conduct
• Fraud
• Defamation (libel/slander)
• Commercial solicitations, promotions, or advertisements
• Hate speech
• Off-topic comments
• “Trolling,” “robo spam” and comments by “social bots” (i.e. generated by automatic software programs)
• Links to websites that violate one of these listed categories
• Promotion in favor of, or in opposition to, a candidate campaigning for election to a political office. Copyrighted material posted without consent
MHP may take steps to have a comment removed if it falls within one of the foregoing categories. Repeatedly violating these guidelines may result in your permanent removal from this page. Also, please keep in mind that this is an internet page on facebook.com. Facebook, Inc. owns and operates facebook.com. It has its own policies and standards concerning what may, and may not, be posted and the actions that it may take with regard to unauthorized posts. See “Facebook Community Standards” at www.facebook.com/communitystandards/. Furthermore, while we encourage debate and discussion, we respectfully request that commenters be mindful that this site is open to the public and that commenters be courteous and civil toward one another. Please understand that you participate on this page at your own risk. Because this is an external, cloud-based site, MHP cannot make any guarantees as to the security of the content shared on it. If you would like to contact us with information that must be kept confidential, please email us at [email protected]
Any and all content posted or submitted for posting on this page is public and subject to public disclosure laws.
