Sheriff Ken McGovern welcomes you to the official DGSO Facebook page of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office of Lawrence, Kansas.
Welcome to the official Facebook page of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. If you are looking for the official source of information about DGSO, please visit our web page www.dgso.org or call 785-841-0007.
For emergencies call 9-1-1. This site is not monitored 24 hours a day
The purpose of this page is to provide people who live and work in Douglas County, Kan., or others with an interest in DGSO, access to information about the department. We encourage your input and hope to engage our followers in helping us meet the needs of our community. This page is a Limited Public Forum. Before posting on this page, please review the following terms of use. A posting of this page constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions:
This Facebook page is NOT monitored 24 hours a day but is reviewed daily during business hours. Do not use this page to report a crime. In case of emergency, dial 911.
All comments will be reviewed for appropriate content. Comments are also subject to Facebook’s Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. DGSO encourages interaction from Facebook users but is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to this page. Comments posted also do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of the DGSO. Please show respect to those you are addressing when submitting comments.
We reserve the right, but assume no obligation, to remove comments or photos that:
- defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others;
-include hatred, slander, threats, obscenity, violence, vulgarity or sexual content;
-spam, advertise or solicit commerce or promote or encourage illegal activity;
-promote, foster or perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, national origin, gender or sex, sexual orientation or disability;
-have personal information about another person or that violate a person's privacy;
-include copyrighted material that belongs to another person or entity;
-contain links to inappropriate Web sites;
-contain confidential information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or any member of the DGSO.
We also reserve the right to ban users that continue to post comments that fall under the previously mentioned reasons for post/comment deletion.
If you post information related to a crime on this page, you may be placing yourself in the position of becoming a witness in court proceedings.
While the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will not be collecting or retaining these comments in our records, this is a public forum and any information provided in comments may be publicly available on Facebook and the privacy policies of Facebook apply. As such, please do not include personal details such as: case number, social security number, or any other information you do not want available to the general public. If you choose to post personal information you do so at your own risk.
DGSO's "liking" of other organizations' or users' pages does not indicate endorsement of that organization's/person's actions or comments.
Comments posted by others on the DGSO Facebook page are not to be considered the opinion of the DGSO; nor does DGSO endorse any third-party comments on this page.
Photo Policy
Facebook users may post photos on this site to share with the general public. Users may only upload photos for which they own the copyright. By uploading a photo, the user acknowledges that he/she owns the copyright to the photo and grants the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office a royalty free unconditional license to post the photo on this site and to provide a copy of the photo in paper or electronic format to any entity if required by Kansas Law. We do not hold any intellectual property rights to the images others post on this site. If any entity wishes to use one of these images for any purpose they must seek permission from the copyright holder. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, however, does hold the rights to the images that we post on this site. If any entity wishes to use one of these images for any purpose they must seek permission from the DGSO.
As our mission states:
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office provides effective and efficient public safety services, knowing that integrity is the basis of community trust. We are committed to professional excellence, continued personal improvement, teamwork, and meeting the future needs of the community.
