Social Media Guidelines

All official Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES (OCM BOCES) social media pages will focus on celebrating and supporting our students, staff, campuses and programs, as well as sharing important news and communicating event information. We encourage you to share your support, connect with other supporters, and visit frequently for news and updates.

While everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment, our first priority is to protect students, staff and community members. Comments and/or posts that do not follow these Comment Guidelines may be removed.

We have zero tolerance for cyberbullying and/or posts or comments that are political, racist, sexist, abusive, profane, violent, obscene, spam, contain falsehoods or are wildly off-topic, or that libel, incite, threaten or make ad hominem attacks on students, employees, guests or other individuals. We also do not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial or other ventures. You participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username and any information provided. We reserve the right to delete comments or topics and even ban users, if needed. Please be aware that all content and posts are bound by Facebook’s Terms of Use.

OCM BOCES encourages user interaction on its social pages, but is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to the page. Additionally, the appearance of external links, as posted by fans of this page or other Facebook users, does not constitute endorsement on behalf of OCM BOCES. In most if not all cases, external links posted by fans will be removed.

You should not provide private or personal information (phone, email, addresses etc.) regarding yourself or others on this page. Any posts or comments containing personal information of this nature will be deleted.

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Social Media User Comment Guidelines:

1. Please note that we cannot accept comments from individuals who are under the age of 13.
2. All statements and viewpoints expressed in the comments are strictly those of the commenter alone, and do not constitute an official position of OCM BOCES unless they are posted by the original author (who is an authorized representative) or by a subject matter identified as an expert responding on behalf of OCM BOCES.
3. OCM BOCES reserves the right to change these guidelines at any time at its sole discretion.
4. OCM BOCES reserves the right to remove any comment at any time from our Facebook page. To uphold polite, constructive and lawful discourse, all comments must NOT contain or be:


• UNRELATED. All comments unrelated to the subject matter will be removed.
• SPAM. All comments selling a product or service or comments made to gain exposure for personal, political or monetary gain will be removed.
• PERSONAL ATTACKS. All hateful or malevolent comments will be removed.
• OFFENSIVE. All comments related to profanity and malicious comments related to race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, etc. will be removed.
• INAPPROPRIATE. This page is about education. Disagreement can produce productive discussion, however, please relay all disagreement in a polite and civilized manner.
• PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Please do not provide any specific details or other personal information, such as full names, phone numbers, home addresses, etc.
• ILLEGAL. Laws that govern use of copyrights, trade secrets, etc., will be followed. The Copyright Office can be found at www.copyright.gov.
• FALSE INFORMATION. Information that is determined to be inaccurate or false including but not limited to images or videos that contain unauthorized, AI-generated content depicting OCM BOCES employees, students and/or OCM BOCES Board Members.