The City of Idalou page was created to facilitate the exchange of information with the community of Idalou. As a public entity the City must abide by certain standards to serve all its constituents in a civil and unbiased manner.
2. The intended purpose behind establishing City of Idalou social media sites is to disseminate information from the City, about the City, to its citizens.
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Comments containing any of the following inappropriate forms of content shall not be permitted on City of Idalou social media sites and are subject to removal and/or restriction by the Public Information Coordinator or his/her designees:
a. Comments not related to the original topic, including random or unintelligible comments;
b. Profane, obscene, violent, or pornographic content and/or language;
c. Content that promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, or national origin;
d. Threats to any person or organization;
f. Comments in support of, or in opposition to, any political campaigns or ballot measures;
g. Solicitation of commerce, including but not limited to advertising of any business or product for sale;
h. Conduct in violation of any federal, state or local law;
i. Encouragement of illegal activity;
j. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems; or
k. Content that violates a legal ownership interest, such as a copyright, of any party.
4. A comment posted by a member of the public on any City of Idalou social media site is the opinion of the commentator or poster only, and publication of a comment does not imply endorsement of, or agreement by, the City of Idalou, nor do such comments necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the City of Idalou.
5. The City of Idalou reserves the right to deny access to City of Idalou social media sites for any individual, who violates the City of Idalou’s Social Media Policy, at any time and without prior notice.
6. Departments shall monitor their social media sites for comments requesting responses from the City and for comments in violation of this policy.
7. When a City of Idalou employee responds to a comment, in his/her capacity as a City of Idalou employee, the employee’s name and title should be made available,
and the employee shall not share personal information about himself or herself, or other City employees.
8. All comments posted to any City of Idalou Facebook site are bound by Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, located at http://www.facebook.com/terms.php, and the City of Idalou reserves the right to report any violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to Facebook with the intent of Facebook taking appropriate and reasonable responsive action.
