EJRP is a part of the Village of Essex Junction, serving all ~11K residents, with a general fund budget supported by all of the Village of Essex Junction, and governed by the Village Trustees. EJRP Social Media Guidelines
• EJRP encourages comments, questions, and concerns from the public on EJRP websites and social media regarding department initiatives.
• EJRP will make posts and comments that promote EJRP initiatives, community events that EJRP is a sponsor of, EJRP related individuals, organizations, or businesses, and other information that supports our vision and mission.
• Comments made by others on EJRP run/managed web and/or social media sites will be monitored by EJRP staff.
• When appropriate, EJRP will publicly respond, in a timely manner, to questions, comments and concerns that are publicly posted. Private messages will be answered privately, but information ascertained or insight gained may lead to public postings by EJRP that will not be personally identifiable to the original communicator.
• EJRP does not discriminate against any views. Comments made publicly, whether positive or negative, will be remain public, unless any of the following are true, in which case the comment will be removed:
o Comments reveal personally identifiable information about staff or participants that has not been posted or previously approved by those individuals. This may include e-mail address, home address, phone number, personal relationships, social security number, or other. o Comments are deemed inappropriate by staff due to (which may include any of the following, or additional not listed): personal attacks, disrespectful, abusive, vulgar, offensive, graphic, hateful, threatening, harassing, demeaning, humiliating or hurtful language, information that is false, comments that cannot be verified/are in dispute between individuals and the truth cannot be readily ascertained, and comments or images that promote illegal activity, are not appropriate for people of all ages, or discuss/display sexual content or nudity. o Comments that are not related to EJRP, and/or promote products, services, or events that are not in line with EJRP’s vision and mission will be removed.
• Users may be blocked from future postings if A) they made a post that needed to be removed and the severity of its violations deems a block, or B) a user has made multiple posts that have had to be removed, and/or C) a user has threatened to post inappropriate content and a preemptive block is deemed appropriate by staff.
