General Rules:

General Forum Rules

Forum Specific Rules:

Main Forum

Other Forums

Other Rules:

User Titles, Locations, Profiles and Signatures

You are permitted a maximum of one account, active or inactive, regardless of how many companies you represent. If you choose to ignore this important restriction, all your accounts will be disabled. If you require a user name change, please use the Contact Us form or send a private message to an Admin. If you have forgotten your log in details and are unable to retrieve them via the system, do not create a new account, please use the Contact Us form. PrisonOfficer.org allows one account per member and one member per account.

We don't intend to censor messages based on the opinions expressed within posts, but we will enforce the policies outlined both here and on the Forum. We reserve the right to remove, modify or move posts at our discretion and without explanation. Please contact the Community Leaders via private message or use the Contact Us form if you do not understand any of the rules, guidelines or policies outlined below.

Suspension of your account is a definite consequence of not adhering to these guidelines.

In addition to the rules posted here, you are required to read any individual forum rules which may be posted at the top of specific forums as Important threads or Announcements. By using this forum, you further agree to abide by PrisonOfficer.org's Terms of Use. PrisonOfficer.org staff assume members have read them and will not take ignorance of any rules as an excuse for not following the rules, policies, and guidelines outlined here and in the forum specific rules.

General Forum Rules:
These rules apply to all Forum categories.

• Please try to be polite. Poking a little fun is ok, but don't go overboard.
• If you SPAM our members in any manner, your account will be disabled. Do not contact anyone to suggest your product or service who is not explicitly expecting you to contact them from an advertising forum post. If you glean information from anywhere other than the advertising forums and use that information to contact someone and present an offer, it's SPAM and it will affect your PO.org account standing.
• Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity created with it. You may not share your account login with anyone. If you choose to ignore this important restriction your account, and any accounts associated with it, will be disabled.
• All publicly displayed messages are limited to the English language. This includes posts, titles, signatures, and any attachments or other forms of public display.
• Signature Spam (a post that was made in hopes of showing a signature, as determined by moderators) is forbidden in all forum categories.
• You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner. This includes all forums, private messages, signatures, and e-mail features.
• You may not post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means in an attempt to defeat any censors put in place by PrisonOfficer.org. Please contact us if you feel a word or URL is unjustly censored.
• You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or are determined by moderators to be detrimental to the community.
• You may not bump threads. Bumping can refer to posting useless information, posting one-liners or any other action to deliberately keep a thread hot or to bring it to the top of its forum. Moderators will use their discretion, depending on the nature of the post, as to whether to take action or not.
• Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.
• Public posts debating these rules and/or moderators' enforcement of such, will be removed without comment. We encourage feedback, however, and invite you to use the Contact Form if you have any questions or concerns.
• Some forum categories have a "minimum post count" and/or "minimum length of membership" restriction before a member is allowed to start a new thread. Please read the Forum Description and the Announcement within if you get a permissions error while trying to start a thread. If you choose to make meaningless posts to circumvent this restriction, your account will be disabled.
• All Promotions (Use of features and forum access) are automatically updated by a cron system that runs hourly.

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Forum Specific Rules:
These rules apply to the Public Discussions and CO and LEO Only Forums.

• If you are NOT a Correctional Officer or member of the Law Enforcement community DO NOT post in the Correctional Officer Only Forums with the exeception of "Ask a CO". (Admin and Support staff are acceptable) THIS MUST BE FOLLOWED. Any breaking of this rule will and could result in the immediate ban of your user account.
• RESERVED FOR LATER USE

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Custom User Titles, Locations, Profiles, and Signatures:
The custom user title, location field, profile picture and signature options are edited via your Profile. Custom user titles and the location field are displayed next to your posted text, under your user name. Profile pictures are shown in your public profile. Signatures, once created in your profile, are attached to the end of your posts (if you choose the option to include your signature).

• URLs or other forms of advertising (phone numbers, plans, contact details, etc.) are not allowed in custom user titles or names, which are limited to 25 characters. Also, you may not use custom titles to impersonate, or attempt to impersonate, PO.org Staff, user groups, or any entity you are not associated with.
• Profile pictures cannot include sexually explicit or graphically intense images.
• Profile Summary (and all other modules) cannot include or link to illegal encouragement, harassment, sexually explicit, or other non-family-friendly content.
• Signatures:
    Must be setup in your profile, and not manually added to your messages.
    May contain a maximum of two smilies. Or one animated smiley.
    May include two clickable links.
    Maximum font size cannot be larger than normal.
    Must be kept to a maximum of four lines when viewed at 1024x768 resolution using the horizontal postbit.
    May not contain links to other threads or posts.
    Please keep special characters to a minimum.
    Your signature is your signature. It is not for sale or rent.
    Any signature that is offensive or insulting to PO.org, its members, or its staff, is prohibited.
    We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature at any time, for any reason.

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Any posts not meeting these guidelines may be removed with or without notice.

We do not remove posts or accounts on request.

In light of our policy of encouraging candid, open exchanges of views and the rapid distribution of information originating from many sources, PrisonOfficer.org cannot determine the accuracy of information that may be uploaded to the forum.

Opinions, advice and all other information expressed by participants in discussions are those of the author. You rely on such information at your own risk. You are urged to seek professional advice for specific, individual situations and not rely solely on advice or opinions given in the discussions.

Privacy Policy: We will not release any member information unless under court order to do so.

We reserve the right to modify and amend these terms at any time without notice. It is your responsibility to remain informed of current PrisonOfficer.org policies.
We further, reserve our right to disable any account at any time for any reason and without notice.
If there are any rules or policies you do not understand, please contact us via our contact form at http://forums.prisonofficer.org/sendmessage.php.

Finally; any abuse towards our staff and/or management in any form, may result in immediate suspension/ban of your account.

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