A. The Village website shall contain, among other things, Village contact and other information such as the address of the Village Hall, the names of the Village's elected and appointed officials, including the Village's Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") Officer, Village departments, and an organization chart.
B. The posting on the Village website of any content which is inappropriate, as determined by the Village web coordinator or his or her designee applying local community standards, is and shall be prohibited. Inappropriate content shall include, but not be limited to, that which directly or indirectly endorses any person or organization not directly associated with the Village, commentary or personal opinions, photographs, music, video or graphics not having the written permission of the copyright holder or proof of being royalty-free.
C. The Village also prohibits the following website content, based upon prevailing local community standards as determined by the web coordinator, or his or her designee, and any communication or website link containing any of the following will not be permitted:
1. Promotions, endorsements, or advertisements for any private business (except as provided for in subsection 1-18-5I of this chapter), commercial service or product or any paid advertising materials in which commercial appeals for funds are made. Acknowledgment of grants or donations for programming purposes shall not be considered as advertising. Paid advertising material includes, but is not limited to, advertising by or on behalf of a candidate for public office and program material made available with or without charge by persons, corporations, or institutions which have a commercial interest in the subject matter. This provision shall not prevent the identification of persons or institutions providing grants or contributions to underwrite the cost of programs unrelated to the commercial interest of the donor or to programs which have a public interest overriding the private commercial interest.
2. Materials or content intended to be used as a political forum by an individual or group or as a mechanism for building exclusive support for a particular person, program or issue. This section shall also prohibit links to candidate forums, even if such forum or the link thereto appears to have been organized and/or is sponsored by what may appear to be a non-partisan organization.
3. Lottery or raffle information.
4. Religious programming with the exception of holiday music.
5. Any material or language which constitutes libel, slander, pornography, obscenity or violence, as determined by local community standards.
6. Trademarks or copyrighted material, unless written permission for use has been obtained in advance and a copy of which is provided to the web coordinator.
7. Programming which is prohibited by applicable Federal, State or local laws.
D. In the case of content deemed to be consistent with the Village website purpose, objectives, access, and content regulations but also containing some content or language that some persons may consider offensive, based upon local community standards, the following message may be posted prior to the website access to such content:
"The following material has been deemed worthy of communication through a link posted on the Village Website, but contains language or other content that may be offensive to some viewers. Viewer discretion and parental guidance are advised."
(Ord. 2017-O-16, 9-5-2017)