The Paly Voice

Feedback Policy (Revised 11/4/05)

The Voice is an open forum for student and other public expression and the discussion of issues of concern to its audience.

Therefore it welcomes feedback, including letters to the editor, guest columns and other expressions of opinion from students, faculty, administrators, community residents and the general public.

The Voice staff will work to maintain the intent of feedback providers but reserves the right to edit all such submissions for length, grammar, potential libel, invasion of privacy, obscenity, and other factors consistent with California Education Code section 48907. In addition, the staff reserves the right to edit feedback to eliminate coarse language, racism, sexism, homophobia, misstatements of fact, comments without an obvious connection to the target story, advertising, and personal attacks and material that otherwise exposes members of the Paly community to public scorn, embarrassment or ridicule. Not all of the letters will be published; letters are published at the discretion of the editors, with input from the staff's adviser, based on the above-stated principles and on individual circumstances.

Staff members will attempt to post acceptable material in a timely manner; however, school schedules and other factors may delay postings.

The Voice staff strongly encourages posters of feedback to use their real names, however staff members generally do not have the resources to verify the identities of people submitting feedback. The Voice staff is developing an optional identity verification system for Paly students and faculty. The Voice staff may require verification of identity for people who post negative comments about members of the Paly community.

Letter writers who do not complete all fields on the feedback form should expect that their comments may not be published.

The Voice staff reserves the right to track IP addresses of people posting comments.

The Voice staff reserves the right to change this policy, its impact on all entries in our feedback database, and treatment of any individual piece of feedback without notice.

To view the privacy policy regarding the collection of information and the posting of feedback from visitors under age 13, click here.