Correction: Library-Free Speech story

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) In a story Oct. 6 about an Indiana attorney's free-speech lawsuit, The Associated Press reported erroneously that attorney David J. Kolhoff had sued an Allen County library for refusing to let him protest the federal health care law in its plaza. Kolhoff supports the law and has sued because he wants to hold a demonstration to educate people about it.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Attorney says Ind. library violating free speech

Ind. man claims library's policy against plaza demonstrations violates his free speech rights

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) An Indiana attorney is suing a public library for refusing to allow him to use its plaza for a demonstration to educate people about the federal health care law.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit against the Allen County Public Library Friday in federal court in the northeast Indiana city of Fort Wayne.

Attorney David J. Kolhoff's complaint claims a library policy banning demonstrations and exhibits on the plaza violates his First Amendment right to free speech.

"Given the broad use of the library's public spaces, we don't believe it can sincerely assert that Mr. Kolhoff's educational activity would be disruptive," ACLU of Indiana Executive Director Jane Henegar said in a statement.

Court documents said officials offered to let Kolhoff use a library meeting room or air a program on the library's public access television channel.

"We do provide ample opportunities for people to convey their views," library Director Jeffrey Krull told The Journal Gazette (http://bit.ly/TeaeLG).

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Correction: Library-Free Speech story