Our Social Media Guidelines can be found at - http://bit.ly/2cHaMq1

Through Facebook, the Broken Hill City Council (Broken Hill For Real) aims to you keep you up to date on all the latest news, events as well as other council initiatives and activities.
Posts will include:
• upcoming events and activities happening in Broken Hill
• important news updates
• links to interesting and useful information about Broken Hill published on council’s website and the internet
• replies and direct messages.

Post and replies
Please use council’s Facebook page to respond to council posts only.
Council will reply to you as quickly as possible, however staff are available during business hours only – 8.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday.
If you have a formal request or enquiry, a complaint or a submission for a community engagement program, visit the Contact Council page for a range of contact options:http://bit.ly/1zRB5mm

Please note that council’s Facebook page is moderated and any vexatious, defamatory or malicious comments will be removed.

Do not:
• Post anything that could be considered prejudicial, racist, off-topic, inflammatory, repetitive, vexatious, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.
• Swear. We want everyone to be comfortable visiting here to get the information we try to provide.
• Harass or make personal attacks against other users, councillors or council staff. Please be respectful of others and their opinions.
• Repost other people's appeals, requests or offers, or anything else that could be considered spam.

• Link to other Facebook pages, any non-government or off-topic page.
• Report any offensive material on Facebook to this page, or post a link to it. Complaints about offensive material should be made directly to Facebook.

During an election period
Council’s social media channels shall continue to provide regular communication with residents, including service requests that align with Customer Contact procedures, event information, program initiatives and general day-to-day council business that is of public interest during the caretaker period.

Council shall not respond to any political comments made or posted during the caretaker period and council shall maintain the right to remove messages which contravene caretaker principles, whether from members of the public or councillors, or which are off-topic as per these Guidelines.

A notice shall be posted on council’s social media channels before the start of the caretaker period, which outlines that council shall not respond to any political comments made, or posted during the caretaker period.

All social media undertaken during the caretaker period shall continue to be in accordance with the Broken Hill City Council Social Media Guidelines.

Disclaimer
Although, council takes care in producing the content for Facebook, it does not guarantee that the information is accurate, complete, and current or that the data is free from defects or malicious code such as viruses.
Council does not accept any responsibility if you incur any loss or damage (however it was caused) in connection with the use of Facebook or any website to which it links.