MRSC Social Media Comments Policy
This policy applies to all comments posted in MRSC and MRSC Rosters social media accounts.
- MRSC social media is not a public forum.
- All posted comments must be related to the topic at hand.
- All comments are the responsibility of the commenter, not MRSC, and should not be taken as official endorsement by MRSC.
- Research requests cannot be submitted through social media. They must be submitted through the Ask MRSC inquiry services at mrsc.org/askmrsc.
- Public records requests cannot be submitted via social media.
- All social media posts, comments and list of followers are subject to public disclosure under Chapter 42.56 RCW.
- MRSC reserves the right to remove inappropriate comments, including but not limited to comments which meet any of the following criteria:
- Off-topic or tangential to the original post
- Potentially libelous
- Obscene or explicit
- Promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.
- Hateful or mean-spirited
- Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language
- Material that is plagiarized or violates intellectual property rights
- Private or personal information published without consent
- Commercial promotions or spam
- Embedded images from external sources
- Lobby for or against legislation, endorse or oppose political candidates or ballot propositions, or otherwise express, endorse, or imply endorsement of opinions or political positions
- Content that violates any law