Town of Brewster Public Works Dept

Town of Brewster Facebook Policy

Purpose of the Town of Brewster Facebook Pages:

The purpose of Town of Brewster Facebook pages is to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the public and the Town of Brewster. We encourage your comments, ideas and concerns and hope that you will find the information here helpful in understanding what your government is doing and what you can do to help. This may be a moderated site, thus comments may be reviewed for compliance with our policies. We recognize that the web is a 24/7 medium, and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage resources, in those cases where the site is moderated, the moderating and posting of comments will occur during regular business hours Monday through Friday. Comments submitted after hours or on weekends will be reviewed as early as possible; in most cases, this means the next business day.

This is a place for collecting suggestions and new ideas and to encourage conversations between and among citizens and their government, not a substitute channel for services or general questions.

Do not submit unsolicited proposals, or other business ideas or inquiries to this site. This site is not to be used for contracting or commercial business.
This Facebook page may not be used for the submission of any claim, demand, informal or formal complaint, or any other form of legal and/or administrative notice or process, or for the exhaustion of any legal and/or administrative remedy.

This Facebook page is not to be used to report criminal activity. If you have information for law enforcement, please contact your local police agency.
Comment Policy

We expect conversations to follow the rules of polite discourse and we ask that participants treat each other, as well as our employees, with respect. The following comments may be removed:

• Profanity and vulgar or abusive language
• Threats of physical or bodily harm
• Sensitive information (for example, information that could compromise public safety)
• Offensive terms that target protected classes, such as ethnic, racial sexual orientation, transgendered, or religious groups.
• Personal information

For the benefit of robust discussion, we ask that comments remain "on-topic." This means that comments must relate to the topic that is being discussed within the Facebook Page. Comments will not be posted that include:

• Off-topic comments (If you have off-topic comments that are relevant to the agency, please email them to brewster@ )
• Questions from the media
• Identical posts by the same user (please don't submit over and over expecting the post to show up faster) or multiple users (a group of people sending identical messages or one person submitting under different aliases). In the case of identical posts, the agency may only post the first submission.

Third Party Terms of User, Privacy, and Security Policies

The technology supporting this site is provided by Facebook, a commercial internet service not controlled by or connected to the Town of Brewster, MA and this site is subject to website policies of that provider including its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use The Town of Brewster has no control over Facebook’s terms of service, privacy policy, advertising policy, appearances of advertising, or postings on other sections of Facebook’s internet services.
To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include personally identifiable information, such as social security number, phone numbers or email addresses in the body of your comment. If you do voluntarily include personally identifiable information in your comment, your comment may be from the Facebook page. If your comment remains posted, your name will not be redacted or removed. Information retained by Facebook is not under the control of the Town of Brewster and users should familiarize themselves with Facebook’s policies before they choose to participate.

Intellectual Property

Comments provided on pages is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Content includes all materials posted by the Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition, visitors to these pages agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to this site under the Creative Commons Attribution License. A copy of this license is available online at

Record Retention Law

Please note, that the Records Retention Law of the Commonwealth requires the Town of Brewster to preserve records created or received by a town employee. Pursuant to this retention requirement comments posted or messages received via an official municipal page on a third-party website (such as an official department page on a social media network) will be treated as governmental records and may be permanently archived. Information that you submit voluntarily through social media sites associated with this department where such information is publicly available, including your name, city or town, and the substance of anything that you post may be disseminated further by being posted online at this website or be publicly discussed by a member of the administration.