Social Media Policy

This is an official page of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. This page was created to provide access to information about NCDPS and to serve as a platform for the public to interact with NCDPS concerning the topics posted. This page is monitored and managed by the NCDPS Communications Office.
 
Before posting or commenting on this page, please review the terms of use in effect for this page.

  1. A posting or comment on this page constitutes acceptance of NCDPS’ terms of use.
  2. This page is not monitored for purposes of crime reporting or providing emergency response services. To report a crime or to request police or emergency assistance, please dial 911.
  3. Comments posted by third-parties on NCDPS social media page(s) do not represent the opinion of NCDPS; nor does NCDPS endorse any third-party comment on this page.
  4. Authorized social media sites shall not be used for political purposes, to conduct private commercial transactions or to engage in private business activities.
  5. NCDPS welcomes a person’s right to express their opinion and invites the public to post comments on this site, so long as the comments pertain to NCDPS and the topic of the page. However, posters and commenters should be aware that NCDPS utilizes profanity filters employed, managed, and developed by the host site for the purposes of page moderation.
  6. NCDPS values comments and feedback on content posted on its social media platforms. To prevent abuse of this limited forum, NCDPS reserves the right to delete comments which are off-topic and do not pertain to NCDPS. It is NCDPS policy not to block, hide or remove constitutionally protected speech from NCDPS authorized social media sites.
  7. Posters and commenters on this site should be aware that social media sites commonly prohibit hate speech, violent or graphic content, threats of violence, bullying, harassment, attacks on public figures, criminal activity, and abusive content from being posted on their sites through their terms of use or community standards policies and retain the right to remove content or expression falling within these categories from their sites.
  8. Comments or posts may be reported by members of the public to the third-party site administrator for a determination as to whether the content of the comment or post violates the social media site’s terms of use or community standards policy. NCDPS is not responsible for the removal of any post or comment the host site chooses to remove in response to a reported violation of its own terms of use or community standards policy.

 

Last updated 11/9/2021