When Tea Party activists wanted to hand out mini Constitutions at the Redding library, the city council quickly passed new rules banning the activity. The Tea Party and ACLU took equally swift action to sue.
This week a Superior Court judge extended a lower court’s earlier suspension of the city council’s policy.
At the center of the controversy is whether the Redding Public Library–the management of which the City of Redding has outsourced to a private management company–is a “’limited public forum’ where government has a compelling interest in regulating how, where and when people can exercise their free speech rights.” or a “traditional public forum” like any park, street or plaza, noting it was built with state funds and has become “an important center for the city’s intellectual, political and social consciousness.”
a “traditional public forum” like any park, street or plaza, noting it was built with state funds and has become “an important center for the city’s intellectual, political and social consciousness.”
Read the whole story inThe Record Searchlight: http://www.redding.com/news/2011/jun/15/judge-redding-library-leafleting-rules-unconstitut
2 Comments
Comments are closed.