Social Media Guidelines
The Moses Lake School District maintains social media accounts as an avenue to communicate important news and information to students, staff, and the public. The District respects the differing opinions of our community, however, this page is not intended to be an open public forum. The District encourages community members to comment on its posts to provide their opinions and feedback to the District, but all comments must be kept to the topic of the District’s original post. The District’s social media accounts are not intended to replace regular communication channels for sharing personal issues and concerns. Comments regarding a personal issue with the District, a school, or a staff member should be handled directly through email, phone, or in person.
Practice Civility and Respect. Our audience includes families and school-aged children, and users should keep that audience in mind when making comments. Moses Lake School District media platforms are intended to be a safe, positive environment to inform the community. They are not open forums to chat with MLSD administrators, staff members or Board of Directors. The District reserves the right to remove comments that it reasonably concludes:
Language that is harassing, discriminatory, profane, offensive, or threatening will not be tolerated. We will remove comments that do not demonstrate civility, respect, and reasoned dialog– including but not limited to:
- Clearly deviate from the topic of the District’s post;
- Contain profanities or lewd, obscene, or sexually explicit content;
- Threaten or harass; Abusive and disrespectful personal attacks
- Contain defamatory content; Hate speech, baiting or antagonizing
- Violate the legal ownership interest or copyright of another party;
- Invade the privacy of students or staff; Contain information about students that is protected from public release by state and federal law
- Promote or advertise commercial services or products; Contain links to websites that are not owned or managed by MLSD
- Incite illegal or unlawful activity;
- Support or oppose political candidates or ballot propositions; or
- Demean, disparage, or otherwise discriminate against a person or group in violation of District policy _____, District procedure_____,, RCW 28A.642.010.
The District will not, however, remove comments based solely on viewpoint.
All content related to District business on this site is a public record, subject to retention and disclosure upon request. The District does not express approval or support for the views expressed by third parties.