Comment & Blogging Policy

This site, both the blog and forums are designed to facilitate dialogue and thus, to ensure a blogging environment that is supportive of that dialogue.

We have guidelines for our public forum. Question submissions will be moderated based on the following blog comment policy:
• Keep it clean. The use of vulgar, offensive, threatening or harassing language is prohibited. No personal attacks permitted. The City expects users of this blog to show respect and consideration to all fellow bloggers.
• No commercialism. This blog is not open to the promotion or advertisement of a business or commercial transaction.
• Brown Act. All public officials subject to the Brown Act and/or other open meeting laws must identify themselves and must not post comments if comments have been posted by two other members of the body in which they serve.
• Web-links. We will review links for content, spam, and would like to keep the links within Redlands or that follow the topic of the post.
• Stay on topic. All blog comments should be related to the posted topic.
Be careful. To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include phone numbers or e-mail addresses in the body of your comment.
• We don't have to agree with you. A posted comment is the opinion of the poster only, and publication of a comment does not imply endorsement or agreement by our staff, community, or any other individuals.
• Policy subject to modification. This blog use policy is subject to amendment and deletion. Any comment may be modified at any time to ensure its continued use is consistent with its intended purpose.
• Submission requires acceptance of this policy. Your submission of a comment constitutes your acceptance of this comment policy.