What follows is an abbreviated version of the City’s full Social Media Policy available here: http://www.hayward-ca.gov/POLICIES. The City of Hayward disclaims liability for ads, videos, promoted content or comments accessible from any external web page. The responsibility for external content or comments rests with the organizations or individuals providing them. Any inclusion of external content or comments on social media sites does not imply endorsement by the City of Hayward. Comments posted to this site will be monitored during regular City business hours only. The City disclaims any and all responsibility and liability for inappropriate content posted to its social media sites that cannot be immediately be removed. The following types of content are prohibited to both administrators and commenters on the site and the City reserves the right to remove any such content without notice:
• Comments not topically related to City programs, services, projects, issues, events and activities, or the particular post being commented upon
• Posts and comments that promote or advertise commercial services, entities or products except as stipulated in City marketing plans and determined by the City to be essential to economic development
• Political statements, including comments that endorse or oppose political candidates or ballot propositions
• Religious statements, including comments that endorse or oppose any type of religious opinions or activities
• Posts and comments that promote, foster or perpetuate discrimination on the basis of creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation
• Posts and comments that include vulgar, offensive, threatening or harassing language, personal attacks or unsupported accusations
• Obscene or sexual content or links to obscene or sexual content illegal activity 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
• Links to external sites that fall under one of the aforementioned categories
All comments and private messages received via City of Hayward social media sites are public records and subject to public disclosure.
