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Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page - Terms of Use

This is the official Facebook page of the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office. This site is intended to serve as a mechanism for communication between the public and the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office, on the listed topics, and is designated as a LIMITED PUBLIC FORUM to further the mission of the office.

We encourage members of the public to like our page, respectfully interact and share ideas as long as they follow our terms of use.

Prior to posting comments on this Limited Public Forum, users must review and agree to the Community Standards of Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards and also the Terms of Use of the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. A submitted comment or posting on this page shall constitute an acknowledgement and agreement of these standards. The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office has a right to report violations of Facebook’s Community Standards to Facebook.

Denial of Access

The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office welcomes a person’s right to express his or her opinion. However, all comments and posts to this page are monitored and reviewed by the department for compliance with our terms of use. The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office reserves the right to restrict, remove or delete any comments or posts found to be in violation of our guidelines.

Individuals, who follow the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page and repeatedly violate the terms of use, may be banned and prohibited from posting future comments.

The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office is not responsible for any postings or comments deemed inappropriate that cannot be removed in a timely fashion.

Terms of Use Guidelines

Consistent with the purpose of this Limited Public Forum, prohibited content includes but is not limited to the following comments or posts that contain:

• Profanity, offensive language or sexual content
• Discriminatory language or promotes discrimination based on race, color, creed, age, gender, religion, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation
• Commercial solicitations or links
• Links to websites that may be offensive or inappropriate
• Spam
• Personal identifying information or a victim’s name, which is not subject to being released under open record laws
• Words that incite, encourage or solicit violent or illegal acts
• Language that is off topic
• Information that might compromise the safety and security of members of the department or the public
• Information that violates the legal ownership or interest of another party or infringes on copyrights, trademarks or intellectual property

Endorsements

Following or friending persons, a business or an organization is not an endorsement by the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office. Instead, it is only intended as a means of communication.

A comment posted by a member of the public on any Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office social media site is the opinion of the commentator or poster only, and publication of a comment does not imply endorsement of, or agreement by, the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office, nor do such comments necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office.

Emergency or Non-Emergency Requests for Police Assistance

This page should not be used to report crime. In case of an emergency, please call 9 1 1.

If you post information about a crime on this page, you may become a witness and subject to being subpoenaed for court proceedings.

Impressum

This is a limited public forum. We encourage you to share your thoughts as they relate to the topic being discussed.

You are fully responsible for the content of your comments. We welcome your comments, but we expect comments generally to be courteous, follow our rules of decorum, and be related to the social media posting being discussed. To that end, we have established the following policy and we reserve the discretion to remove comments that:

1. Contain obscene, indecent, or profane language;
2. Contain threats or defamatory statements;
3. Are bullying, intimidating, or harassing towards any user;
4. Contain personal attacks;
5. Contain hate speech;
6. Promote or endorse services or products;
7. Suggest or encourage illegal activity;
8. Are multiple, repetitive off-topic posts by a single user (spam);
9. Are not topically related to the particular posting;
10. Violate a legal ownership interest of any other party; or
11. Imbed links to other Internet sites.

Please respect our photos. All photos taken and posted by SCSO are the sole property of the SCSO.


In short: please be nice. Our rules of decorum are in place to encourage civil discourse and to prevent a poster from disrupting dialog in a way that prevents or impedes the accomplishment of the purpose of our social media sites.