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The City of Griffin operates and maintains its social media sites as a public service to provide information about City programs, services, projects, issues, events, and activities. Although we encourage posts and comments on the City of Griffin social media pages that allow posts, these sites are limited public forums and are moderated by the City staff. Communications made through the City of Griffin social media sites in no way constitute a legal or official notice or comment to the City of Griffin. As an example, a message or comment on a City of Griffin social media page requesting open records will not be considered an open records request made pursuant to the Georgia Open Records Act. Please contact the appropriate City department to make any formal requests, complaints, or comments related to City programs or services.

Legal Disclaimer

The City of Griffin assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of errors, omissions, or discrepancies. City of Griffin is not responsible for the content of nor endorses any site that has a link from this page or social media account.

Comment and Posting Policy

Commenters are fully responsible for everything in their postings and comments, which are in the public domain. Posted comments do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the City of Griffin.

Comments, postings, and messages submitted by the public after the normal business hours of the City of Griffin office that operates the social media account will be read as early as possible. In most cases, this means the next business day.

The City of Griffin reserves the right to not post or to edit or remove any of the following from its social media accounts:

a. comments and hyperlinks unrelated to the topic of the posting or discussion;

b. City of Griffin postings with incorrect information that cannot be edited to provide correct information;

c. comments in support of, or in opposition to, local political campaigns or ballot measures;

d. content containing information about City of Griffin business or operations that is confidential and non-public;

e. profane, obscene, or indecent language, content, or links;

f. disparaging remarks that promote, foster, or perpetuate 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;

g. personal, business, or organizational solicitations or advertisements unrelated to the posted social media topic;

h. conduct or encouragement of illegal activity;

i. information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;

j. content that violates copyrights or trademarks of others;

k. spam; and

l. content that contains threats, harassment, personal attacks, or defamatory statements.

Additionally, content that violates the social media account platform’s statement of rights and responsibilities may be removed by the social media platform.

Open Records

All content, comments, messages, and replies posted on or through any City of Griffin social media account are subject to Georgia open records laws.