Miami-Dade County will, upon request, consider links to any site that provides useful resources consistent with the mission of the County, subject to the following criteria:

• If the link requested is to governmental resources, only official government sites (e.g., federal, state, local, and government-funded agencies/boards, etc.) will be considered. No site that is overly political will be considered appropriate. On an exception basis, the County will consider non-official sites that, at its sole discretion, are deemed to be of merit and value with respect to the County’s mission.
• Links to non-profit organizations that are consistent with the County's mission are allowed if the requesting Department is able to provide a public benefit by including the link.
• In general, links to commercial websites are not permitted. Requests for exceptions to this policy will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Sites should not link (i.e., a site is linked from in the index of a requesting site's home page) to inappropriate sites (e.g., illegal activities such as graffiti, sites with content of a prurient nature such as X-rated descriptions, or graphics, or sites with excessive negative commentary.)
• Sites with content written by many different people (e.g., chat rooms, interactive bulletin boards, etc.) which are not appropriately moderated or edited by the host and where participation criteria has not been posted on the site should be avoided.

The Webmaster handles requests for links to sites and reciprocal links by:

• When a request to link comes in, reviewing the site against the County’s adopted criteria;
• Making a decision to link to the site and,
• Notifying the requesting sponsor when the decision is in the affirmative.

Sites that are linked from the county are reviewed periodically to confirm that the link policy criteria are still being met.

Liability related to the county’s policy for external links is covered by the county’s web site disclaimer.

Privacy issues related to the county’s policy for external links is covered by the county’s web site privacy and security statement.

This policy will be periodically reviewed by the Web Manager and revised as necessary.