City Social Media Policy

The City of Dayton makes use of social media to share information, reinforce messages, and provide an opportunity to distribute information quickly and efficiently to a large audience and may be used on a day-to-day basis and during emergency situations. The City’s use of social media is for informational and marketing purposes only and, despite efforts to keep the City provided information timely and accurate, users should be aware that the information made available by the City may not be timely, accurate or complete. The City is not responsible for the security of social networking sites and applications that reside outside the City’s domain.

The purpose of these sites is to provide timely information regarding the City of Dayton to its residents, businesses, and visitors. The City encourages and welcomes participation but reserves the right to monitor and delete comments in accordance with its policies. Once posted, the City reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to delete submissions that are illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, invade privacy, that support or oppose political candidates or ballot propositions, that contain lewd or vulgar language, that contain personal attacks of any kind, that contain offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial or religious group or which infringe upon the intellectual property of others. Further, the City also reserves the right to delete comments/posts that are spam or include links to other sites, clearly off topic or advocate illegal activity, promote particular services, products or organizations or infringe on copyrights or trademarks.

It is impossible for the City of Dayton to review a post or comment before it becomes publicly readable, and the City does not necessarily review posted content on a regular basis. Therefore, be advised that comments expressed on these sites, other than those posted by the City of Dayton, do not necessarily reflect the opinions and position of the City of Dayton or its employees. Any advertisements posted by the public do not reflect any City endorsement or opinion. The City of Dayton does not take responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any content posted by the public on social media sites.

Communications sent via the internet or through social media sites shall in no way be deemed to constitute official or legal notice for any purpose to the City of Dayton or any of its employees, where notice to the City is required by any law, rule, regulation, or contract. Social media sites are not intended for reporting emergencies or other violations of laws, regulations, or City ordinances. Emergencies should be reported by calling 911. If you post to any City of Dayton social media site, we will do our best to respond as promptly as possible during the hours of Mon – Fri, 9:00am to 5:00pm. If your enquiry falls outside of our regular hours, we will try to respond when office hours resume.

Further, please be advised that you participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for comments, username and any information provided. Content posted on social media sites should not be construed as private or confidential and the posting of comments and private information on social media sites are visible to all. In addition, posts to social media sites may constitute public records subject to disclosure pursuant to Kentucky’s Open Records Act.