Arapahoe County Government Sheriffs Office

Arapahoe County will not edit or alter comments or posts by citizens. However, the County reserves the right to remove or block comments/materials/posts from County social media sites when those comments/materials/posts, in the County’s sole discretion, do not promote civil discussion or comply with the County’s purpose for maintaining the social media site or are:

• Obscene, profane, explicit or racist language (including links to obscene or sexually explicit material);

• Potentially libelous statements, personal attacks, threats, name-calling, harassments, insults or language inciting violence;
• 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, sexual orientation or political party;
• Sexual content or links to sexual content;
• Plagiarized material or material that potentially violates intellectual property rights;
• Commercial product promotions, solicitations or spam;
• Campaign-related posts of any kind;
• Violate any law or promote violation of any law, or conduct or encouragement of illegal activity;
• Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;
• Comments that are not topically related to the current discussion or thread;
• Made by a person masquerading as someone else.

Repeated violations of this policy may result in removal of access to the social media site or service.

Posts to the County’s social media accounts shall constitute acceptance of this policy.