Our job is to advise the City of Oneonta on environmental matters. City social networking content and comments containing any of the following forms of content shall not be allowed for posting and are subject to removal:
• Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance,
national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation;
• Sexual content or links to sexual content;
• Solicitations of commerce;
• Conduct or 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 of any other party;
• Comment in support of, or in opposition to, political campaigns or ballot measures;
• Threats to any person or organization;
• Encouragement of illegal activity;
• Comments that may cause an invasion of privacy;
• Comments regarding any ongoing investigation of any sort; and
• Discriminatory, racist, abusive, obscene, inflammatory, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable statements, language, or content.
4. 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. Any content removed based on these guidelines will be retained by the City of Oneonta’s records retention officer for a reasonable period of time as required by the applicable records retention statute, including the time, date and identity of the poster, when available.
