Settlement ends restrictive speech codes at California community college district
Conservative students recently won free speech protections and $330,000 in damages and fees.
The victory on Friday in federal court ends a battle that began two years ago when Young Americans for Freedom at Clovis Community College wanted to put up “anti-communist flyers” and “pro-life flyers.”
The Friday legal order “permanently prohibits State Center Community College District — of which Clovis and three other community colleges are a part — from banning ‘inappropriate or offensive’ speech or enforcing any viewpoint-discriminatory, overbroad, or vague policy to censor speech by a student group,” according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Some of the posters (below) were critical of socialism and were put up in November 2021, as part of YAF’s “Freedom Week” programming, as previously reported by The College Fix.
www.thecollegefix.com/we-won-students-get-330k-settlement-end-to-offensive-speech-code/