Lane County Sheriff's Office Comment Policy
The Lane County Sheriff’s Office maintains this page for the purposes of engaging and interacting with our community, promoting the agency’s activities, events and programs and providing relevant and timely information as well as informing the public of critical incidents. Please be aware that these sites are limited public forums and moderated by county staff. To best facilitate online conversation, please keep your comments on the topic at hand. Users who submit posts or comments on county social media sites agree that they have read, understand and agree to these terms of use. We use platform-provided content moderation/filtering options to limit foul or obscene content. We will also monitor and remove inappropriate content as defined below, without prior notice, and as soon as possible. We do not discriminate against any views but will remove any posts of inappropriate material as determined by us in our sole and complete discretion. User-generated posts or comments may be deleted or temporarily hidden and later deleted by county staff if content:
• Contains obscene, profane, threatening or harassing language, images, GIFs, and/or video content or language that is considered profane, including abbreviations or symbols used to hide profanity.
• Contains s*xually explicit images, cartoons, jokes or links to s*xual content.
• Promotes, fosters or perpetuates unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, s*x, gender, s*xual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, genetic information, military service or other circumstance prohibited by federal, state or local law, rule or regulation, including Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Contains commercial messages, including advertisements, endorsements, solicitations and spam.
• Promotes or endorses political campaigns, candidates for election to a political office or ballot measures.
• Contains suggestions or encouragement of illegal activity.
• Contains information that may compromise the safety or security of the public, public systems, the county, its employees or public officials.
• Contains defamatory (i.e. slanderous, libelous) remarks, personal attacks or threats against any individual person or group of people.
• Violates a legal ownership interest of any party, such as trademark or copyright infringement.
• Makes or publishes false, vicious or malicious statements concerning any county employee.
• Promotes violence or the threat of violence to themselves or others. (These types of comments will be reported to the appropriate authorities.)
• Discloses confidential or proprietary information or personally identifiable information, such as an address, phone number, Social Security number or other sensitive information.
• Contains multiple successive or repetitive posts by a single user or repetitive posts copied and pasted by one or more users, or spam.
• Is off-topic or unrelated to the specific post.
• Reasonably interferes with, inhibits or compromises law enforcement investigations, tactics, responses to incidents and/or the safety of law enforcement officers or staff. Repeated violations of these terms of use may result in an individual being blocked from interactions with the Lane County Sheriff’s Office’s page at any time without prior notice. Further, commenting may be turned off when there are excessive comments in violation or our terms of use. Lastly, commenting on social media is not an official notice or comment to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office or its officials or employees.
