Social Media Policy

This is an official page of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. This page was created to provide access to information about NCSHP and to serve as a platform for the public to interact with NCSHP concerning the topics posted. This page is monitored and managed by the NCSHP Public Information Office.

Before posting or commenting on this page, please review the terms of use in effect for this page.

• A posting or comment on this page constitutes acceptance of NCSHP’s terms of use.
• This page is not monitored for purposes of crime reporting or providing emergency response services. To report a crime or to request police or emergency assistance, please dial 911.
• Comments posted by third parties on NCSHP social media pages do not represent the opinion of NCSHP; nor does NCSHP endorse any third-party comment on this page.
• Authorized social media sites shall not be used for political purposes, to conduct private commercial transactions or to engage in private business activities.
• NCSHP welcomes a person’s right to express their opinion and invites the public to post comments on this site, so long as the comments pertain to NCSHP and the topic of the page. However, posters and commenters should be aware that NCSHP utilizes profanity filters employed, managed and developed by the host site for the purposes of page moderation.
• NCSHP values comments and feedback on content posted on its social media platforms. To prevent abuse of this limited forum, NCSHP reserves the right to delete comments which are off-topic and do not pertain to NCSHP. It is NCSHP policy not to block, hide or remove constitutionally protected speech from NCSHP authorized social media sites
• Posters and commenters on this site should be aware that social media sites commonly prohibit hate speech, violent or graphic content, threats of violence, bullying, harassment, attacks on public figures, criminal activity and abusive content from being posted on their sites through their terms of use or community standards policies and retain the right to remove content or expression falling within these categories from their sites.
• Comments or posts may be reported by members of the public to the third-party site administrator for a determination as to whether the content of the comment or post violates the social media site’s terms of use or community standards policy. NCSHP is not responsible for the removal of any post or comment the host site chooses to remove in response to a reported violation of its own terms of use or community standards policy.

Last Updated 8/18/2025