Social Media

The County of Ventura and its departments and agencies (County) maintain social media sites to provide information about the County to the public. Access to and utilization of these sites are subject to these Terms of Use and any Terms of Use indicated by the operator of any social media site. Not every County-affiliated social media site allows public comment.

For those sites that allow public comment, the County will review comments after they have been posted. Due to the fact that social media pages are public and potentially visible to persons of all ages and diverse backgrounds, posts should be respectful, civil and considerate of visitors. Comments will be removed if they:

• Contain language or comments that violate any law.

• Contain threats against any person or organization.

• Solicit, promote or advertise services or products.

• Contain abusive, profane or vulgar language.

• Contain language or information that may compromise or threaten the safety of any person or organization.

• Contain sexual content, graphic or obscene material, or material that would otherwise violate the law if published on this site.

• Contain offensive language relating to specific ethnic, religious, racial or other protected groups.

• Contain false or misleading information, including impersonation of any other individual.

• Discuss topics that have no relevance to the County or its business.

The County will not edit your comments to make them compliant with the Terms of Use. Therefore, please ensure that any comments comply with this policy if you would like them posted.

Any delay in removing noncompliant comments or postings shall not be construed as approval of the comment or an exception to this policy.

The County Executive Officer, or his/her designee, reserves the exclusive right to remove or delete an agency/departmental social media page, in whole or in part, or specific social media content if the County Executive Officer, or his/her designee, determines that the requirements set forth in this policy are not being followed.

*Nothing in this policy is intended to contradict State or Federal law. Privacy

To protect your personal privacy and the privacy of other persons, please do not include personally identifiable or sensitive information in your posts, such as Social Security numbers, phone numbers or addresses.

Posting comments to a County social media site will grant the County and anyone reading the site permission to copy, distribute, make derivatives of, display, or otherwise utilize the comment.

The County does not archive information posted on social media sites, or otherwise retain or maintain historical postings.