Social Media Disclaimer

The purpose of the Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) social media sites is to disseminate information on specific MCPS topics. It is not intended to be a public forum. Comments posted to the division's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube pages will be monitored. MCPS, at its sole discretion, may block certain persons or accounts from its social media accounts that contradict the guidelines outlined in this disclaimer. The school division reserves the right to remove submissions that contain vulgar language, personal attacks of any kind (including students, staff, and community members), or offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial, or religious groups. Further, the school division reserves the right to delete comments that are:

  • Posts intended to incite students as to create a danger and risk of the commission of unlawful acts on school premises, violate of school rules or division policies, or cause a disruption of the school’s orderly operation;

  • Hate speech; profanity, obscenity or vulgarity; comments that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory;

  • Obscene, nude or offensive imagery (including but not limited to, profile pictures);

  • Defamatory statements to a person or people; name-calling and/or personal attacks;

  • Comments whose main purpose are commercial in nature and/or to sell a product;

  • Comments that infringe on copyright or another person’s intellectual property;

  • Spam comments from individuals or groups, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile;

  • Personal information about you or another individual (including identifying information, email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses);

  • False representation of another individual, organization, government or entity; or

  • Endorsement or comment upon a candidate or issue on the ballot in a local, state, or federal election.

Users seeking to have a personal issue resolved may contact the appropriate department for a response.

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