Social Media Comment Policy

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While this is an open forum, it's also a family friendly one, so please keep your comments clean. By participating in this forum, you assume all risk and responsibility for your comments, username, and any information provided. External links and/or or the use of third-party applications on this site does not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the City of Sierra Vista.

The City reserves the right to remove content from its social media sites that meet any of the following criteria:

  • Content that contains abusive, harassing, intimidating, vulgar, obscene, and offensive communications or language
  • Content that contains personal attacks, defames, or libels others
  • Content that infringes upon the privacy rights of others
  • Disparaging content or humor based on race, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law
  • Communications that include any copyrighted materials, trade secrets, proprietary information, or any other highly sensitive, confidential information
  • Solicitation of others for commercial ventures or religious, social, or political causes, campaigns, or candidates
  • False information
  • Content that digresses from the topic being discussed or information that reasonably could compromise an individual’s safety or public safety
  • Content that impersonates or misrepresents someone else
  • Spam comments, such as posting the same content multiple times on a channel
  • Threats

Any participants on the City’s official social media sites who are in continual violation of the posting/commenting guidelines may be permanently banned from the City’s site. Please be aware that all comments are subject to disclosure as public records.