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My first Police CHP recording wwith immature cop and his light beam in my face
I noticed 3 patrol cars in a MacDonald s parking lot and decided to film them under my first Amendment lo and behold i get a immature cop who happens to think its funny shining light in peoples...

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First amendment violation.
Eugene Oregon, g4s agents at the ltd bus station threatened me with the police after they saw me recording them.

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Religion By Kendal Mitchell, Thu, March 26, 2015

A humanist organization sent a letter to a school district in Ohio on Monday, alleging some of the practices and language in their student handbook violates the First Amendment.

In its written request, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Edon Northwest Local School district to stops its, "sectarian policies and practices that violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

ACLU advocates said they wrote the letter in response to certain passages in school systems student handbook referencing "Christian values."

The handbook states,"As we strive to achieve our Vision and accomplish our Mission, we value" with "Honesty and Christian values" as the second entry.

The group also alleges the school district encourages local ministers to lead prayer during mandatory school assemblies. Students must have parent approval in order to not attend the events, according to the ACLU letter.

These reports also allege that the ministers pray aloud, ask the students to join in the prayer and recite homilies concerning upcoming holidays, the letter reads.

Interim superintendent John Granger, who joined the school district in January, said while he has not seen any instances of First Amendment violations, and he thinks school officials should make changes if violations are discovered.

This has already been settled by the United States Supreme Court, Granger said. I would make a recommendation to the board of education that if we are in violation of the law, we should stop.

ACLU staff attorney Drew Dennis said the group asked the school district for additional information concerning the alleged policies to find out if the issue is more widespread than initially reported.

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The Champaign County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union applauds the Unit 4 school district for clarifying the appropriate manner for accommodating the desire of a handful of students to observe an Ash Wednesday ritual within the school, without intruding on the religious liberty of those students who did not wish to participate in that service.

If students themselves had invited the priest and requested use of space for an Ash Wednesday service prior to the choir departing early that morning for a long-scheduled trip, and if the students interested in the service had met in a room separate from where the other members were gathered, there would have been little controversy.

Courts have held that if a public school opens its room for student groups (clubs, affiliated organizations or academic groups) to meet, then students have a right to use that space for religious observances of their choice.

Students also have the right to refrain from participating in any religious observance at school without separating themselves from other students.

It is important that whenever public school spaces are used for religious activities, school staff cannot initiate or organize the arrangements. Extracurricular religious activities in public school spaces may, however, be initiated and organized by students as long as other students do not experience any pressure or obligation to participate.

The school district's inquiry had a good outcome. The entire community was educated about the true meaning of the First Amendment protection against government "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

CAROL SPINDEL

President

Champaign County ACLU

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Is The Confederate Flag License Plate Free Speech?
Is The Confederate Flag License Plate Free Speech? Is a license plate featuring the Confederate flag offensive enough to be banned, or should it be protected under the First Amendment, which...

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The Trial of The First Amendment Fugitive
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Supreme Court to Hear Confederate Flag License Plates Case
Justices will determine whether state specialty license plates are protected free speech under the First Amendment.

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As Supreme Court justices wrestle with a free speech case over specialty-license plates, another high-profile First Amendment dispute may soon reach the court.

On Friday, the justices are scheduled to discuss in private whether to review a ruling against a group of white public high school students from California who sued their school for ordering them to remove their American flag shirts on a day when many other classmates were celebrating their Mexican heritage.

Lawyers for the students are asking the Supreme Court to reverse a ruling last year by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the school didnt infringe on anyones constitutional rights.

As Law Blog recounted earlier, the suit was brought by three white students who attended Live Oak High School in northern California. On Cinco de Mayo in 2010, they showed up in t-shirts adorned in stars and stripes, outraging Mexican students who perceived the attire as a racist attack, court documents say.

Alerted to a potential fight brewing, an assistant principal asked the students to turn their shirts inside out or take them off. Several students refused to comply with the order and two of them had to go home for the day with excused absences. The next day, according to the Ninth Circuits opinion, those two students received numerous threats from other students and missed school another day out of fear for their safety.

School officials anticipated violence or substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities, and their response was tailored to the circumstances, Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote in last years opinion, which noted that Live Oak had a history of violence among students, some gang-related and some drawn along racial lines.

The students are represented by the American Freedom Law Center, a conservative public interest law firm co-founded by lawyer Robert J. Muise.

[T]here is never a legitimate basis for banning the display of an American flag on an American public school campus, wrote Mr. Muise in a December petition to the high court. And by incentivizing and rewarding violence as a legitimate response to unpopular speech, the Ninth Circuits decision is contrary to our foundational First Amendment principles and provides a dangerous lesson in civics to our public school students.

Attorneys for the school and its district argue that whats at stake isnt the First Amendment but the ability of school officials to protect their students and curb disruptions. In an opposition brief, they invoked some of Americas bloodiest episodes of school violence:

School officials on the scene had ample reason to believe violence and disruption were about to happen. School officials across the Nation act against a backdrop of the need to prevent another Santee, Columbine, Littleton, or any of the hundreds of school shootings that have happened since Tinker was decided. This is a case about school actions to protect students, which had the incidental effect of regulating the dress of two students on one afternoon. Not the expression of any particular opinion, nor regulation of any expression at any other time.

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Manufacturing Ignorance: UFOs, the First Amendment and National Security
The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up is an investigation by Author and Researcher Terry Hansen into whether some of America #39;s most influential news organizations, many...

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Madison #39;s Music
What if most of what we think we know about reading the text of the First Amendment is just wrong? For years, the Supreme Court has treated the First Amendment like a laundry list of isolated...

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