Legal / Trust

Community Moderation Policy

ForoCivic moderation standards are designed to maintain civility, clarity, and accountable civic participation.

Current contract-set version

Policy scope

Public participation and moderation

Applies to civic issue participation, comments, and moderation handling.

Intent

Civility with accountable process

Protects productive public discourse while preserving transparency.

Official document

DOCX source

Download the full policy text for policy review and procurement records.

Download the complete policy: Community Moderation Policy (DOCX)

Policy purpose

This policy establishes moderation expectations for municipal discussion spaces hosted in ForoCivic.

The objective is to support public participation while reducing abuse, disruption, and low-integrity behavior.

Moderation decisions are intended to be governed, documented, and reviewable in context.

How this policy is used

Municipal teams can use this document as their baseline moderation framework during pilot onboarding.

Operational rules should be communicated clearly to residents and applied consistently by designated moderators.

The full policy text is distributed as a downloadable legal document for municipal review.