The City of Danville maintains multiple city sponsored social media sites (Twitter-Citydanvilleil, Instagram-DiscoveringDanville, Facebook-Discovering Danville, Garfield Pool & City of Danville Recreation Division) as a way to provide communication on events and information important to those inside and outside the community. Management of those city-sponsored social media sites is governed by a City of Danville policy that provides overall legal and policy guidance on the use of those social media sites by the public. Below are legal disclosures and terms of use governing content posted on city-sponsored social media sites;
In some cases, posts by the public may violate the city’s standards for content on city-sponsored social media sites. Therefore, the City of Danville reserves the right to restrict or remove any messages or postings with the following content:
1. 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 or sexual orientation.
2. Obscenity. The content, or any material contained in it, contains obscene matter.
3. Defamatory statements, or any material contained in it, holds up an individual or groups of people to public ridicule, derision or embarrassment, or is libelous.
4. Use of vulgar, offensive, threatening or harassing language.
5. Unlawful goods, services, behavior or activities. The content, or any material contained in it, promotes or encourages, or appears to promote or encourage, the use or possession of unlawful or illegal goods, services, and behavior or activities.
6. Content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party, including, but not limited to infringement of a copyright, trademark or any registered mark.
7. Posts or links that contain malicious software (malware) such as viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware or any other unwanted software.
8. Religion. The content, or any material contained in it, advocates or opposes a religion or religious belief.
9. Violence. The content, or any material contained in it, contains an image or description of graphic violence, including, but not limited to: (1) the depiction of human or animal bodies or body parts, or fetuses, in states of mutilation, dismemberment, decomposition, or disfigurement, and (2) the depiction of weapons or other implements or devices associated in the advertisement with an act or acts of violence or harm on a person or animal.
10. “Adult”-oriented goods or services. The content, or any material contained in it, promotes or encourages, or appears to promote or encourage, a transaction related to, or uses brand names, trademarks, slogans or other materials which are identifiable with, films rated “X” or “NC-17", video games rated “A” or “M,” adult book stores, adult video stores, n**e and/or topless clubs and other adult entertainment establishments, adult telephone services, adult Internet sites, and es**rt services.
11. Comments unrelated to the topic of the forum; hyperlinks to material that is not directly related to the discussion;
12. Spam or commercial promotions; content containing any unsolicited or unauthorized advertisement or solicitation (i.e. spam, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes or other promotional materials).
13. Promotion or advertising of any businesses or commercial enterprises, unless they are providing support to city services.
14. Support or opposition of any ballot issue or candidate for office. The content, or any material contained in it, contains political campaign speech. “Political campaign speech” is speech that: (1) supports or opposes or appears to support or oppose a ballot measure, initiative, or referendum, or (2) refers to any candidate for public office.
15. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems.
16. This policy works in conjunction with and does not override existing or new policies or agreements.
