The city considers the activities and uses of social media listed below to be unacceptable. The city reserves the right to delete any information posted on city’s social media sites that is unacceptable. This list is not exhaustive. Questions about particular uses of social media or particular social media content should be directed to the city clerk who will forward the question to the mayor for a decision. Unacceptable uses of social media include:
(A) Using social media in a manner that does not comply with federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and with city policies.
(B) Using social media in a manner that violates the copyright, trade or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or otherwise violates their legal ownership interests.
(C) Ethnic slurs, profanity, personal insults, material that is harassing, defamatory, fraudulent, or discriminatory or other content or communications that would not be acceptable in the city workplace under city or department policy or practice.
(D) Obscene, indecent, or profane language, pictures, or videos.
(E) Fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading information.
(F) Comments not related to the posted topic for the city social media page or post.
(G) Multiple, successive, off-topic posts by a single user or repetitive posts copied and pasted by multiple users or spam.
(H) Promotion or endorsement of commercial services and products.
(I) Violates the terms of contracts governing the use of any social media content, including, but not limited to, software and other intellectual property licenses.
(J) Displays sexually explicit images, cartoons, jokes, messages, or other material in violation of the city’s sexual harassment policy.
(K) Expressions of support, or in opposition to, a political party or candidate before or during an election period.
(L) Contains confidential or “for official use only” information or information that compromises the security of city networks or information systems. Such “for official use only” or confidential information includes, but is not limited to, information that is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), being Pub. Law No. 104-191, or other federal, state, or local laws and regulations (except as permitted under such laws and regulations) as well as social security numbers and other personally identifiable information.
(Ord. 23-01, passed 4-11-23)