City of West Jordan Social Media Policy
The City of West Jordan maintains multiple city-sponsored social media sites to provide communication on events and important information. The City of West Jordan maintains these city-sponsored social media sites in accordance with this policy. Below are general terms of use governing all public content posted on city-sponsored social media sites. The City of West Jordan will remove any messages or postings with the following:
· Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination based on race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status regarding public assistance, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.
· Content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party, including, but not limited to, infringement of a copyright, trademark, or any registered mark.
· Ad hominem attacks or defamatory statements against any individual or group that holds up that individual or group to public ridicule, derision, or embarrassment.
· Content that contains obscene matter or matter prohibited under applicable laws.
· Use of vulgar, offensive, threatening, or harassing language.
· Promotion, sale, or solicitation of unlawful goods, services, behavior, or activities.
· Content that contains political campaign speech, including: (1) support or opposition, or the appearance of support or opposition to a ballot measure, initiative, or referendum, or (2) references to any candidate for public office.
· Content calling for or depicting violence or harmful acts towards humans or animals.
· Content promoting adult entertainment, including films, video games, or services.
· Comments unrelated to the topic of the forum, including hyperlinks to material that is not directly related to the discussion.
· Content containing any unsolicited or unauthorized advertisement or solicitation (i.e., spam, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other promotional materials).
· Promotion or advertising of any businesses or commercial enterprises.
· Posts or links that contain malicious software (malware) such as viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware, or any other unwanted software.
· Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems. Comments made on the city's social media accounts are subject to government records laws and may be archived, regardless of public status. Given staff and resource limitations, City may not be able to remove all posts in violation of this policy but will use reasonable efforts remove such posts as they are identified.
