The purpose of the City of La Verne presence on social media sites will be to market and promote activities, events, and services. Questions should be directed to the website so the request can be handled through the “24 Hour City Hall” tracking system. The City of La Verne reserves the right to restrict or remove any content that it deems, in its sole discretion, to be unwarranted, offensive, abusive, obscene, defamatory, in violation of copyright and/or trademark law, or other intellectual property of any third party, or is in violation of this policy or any other applicable law, or poses a threat to the City technology system or its security. Where possible, posts made to these sites should link back to the official City of La Verne Website for forms, documents, and other information. Domains that should be referenced are “cityoflaverne.org”, “lvpd.org”, & “lavernefire.org”. City of La Verne social networking content and comments containing any of the following forms of content shall not be allowed for posting and posts violating these guidelines shall be subject for removal:
A. Comments not topically related to the subject or article being commented upon
B. 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
D. Sexual content or links to sexual content
E. Conduct or encouragement of illegal activity
G. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems
H. Content that violates a legal ownership interest of any party
I. Potentially libelous comments
J. Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language
K. Private or personal information published without consent
L. Comments totally unrelated to the topic
M. Commercial promotions or spam
N. Content of a political nature
Administrative Regulation, Social Media Policy, page 3
O. Hyperlinks to material that is not directly related to the discussion
