diff --git a/src/constants.js b/src/constants.js
index 64b9330b2..3b18e732f 100644
--- a/src/constants.js
+++ b/src/constants.js
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ export const GEMINI_SAFETY = [
     },
     {
         category: 'HARM_CATEGORY_CIVIC_INTEGRITY',
-        threshold: 'BLOCK_NONE',
+        threshold: 'OFF',
     },
 ];
 
diff --git a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
index 4680a20df..4809ae8ac 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
@@ -387,11 +387,6 @@ async function sendMakerSuiteRequest(request, response) {
         if (['gemini-1.5-pro-001', 'gemini-1.5-flash-001', 'gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0827', 'gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0924'].includes(model)) {
             safetySettings = GEMINI_SAFETY.map(setting => ({ ...setting, threshold: 'BLOCK_NONE' }));
         }
-        // Interestingly, Gemini 2.0 Flash does support setting the threshold for HARM_CATEGORY_CIVIC_INTEGRITY to OFF.
-        else if (['gemini-2.0-flash', 'gemini-2.0-flash-001', 'gemini-2.0-flash-exp', 'gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation'].includes(model)) {
-            safetySettings = GEMINI_SAFETY.map(setting => ({ ...setting, threshold: 'OFF' }));
-        }
-        // Most of the other models allow for setting the threshold of filters, except for HARM_CATEGORY_CIVIC_INTEGRITY, to OFF.
 
         if (enableWebSearch && !useMultiModal && !isGemma && !isLearnLM && !model.includes('gemini-2.0-flash-lite')) {
             const searchTool = model.includes('1.5') || model.includes('1.0')