Sarasota County (FL) School Board Chairman orders police to throw a citizen out of a Public Meeting because she was..."About to say something horrible...[About a School Board Member]" during her public comment.
How is this NOT a violation of the 1st Amendment?
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@SarasotaSheriff
Kurt Hoffman's Deputies were NOT involved at the School Board Meeting. Not their jurisdiction. Hoffman is A+
Here's what's crazy > The School Board created their own police force (accountable to them) and are using the force to shutdown parents.
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@ChrisMZiegler
This is not a 1a issue. The private meeting has every right to control what’s being said in said private meeting
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@ChrisMZiegler
I’m going to carry my own personal PA system to the board meetings. We all should. They can’t cut off our ability to be heard when they feel challenged. I understand time limits, but I’ve seen too many of these members hit the mic cut off, not letting someone finish the sentence.
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@GovRonDeSantis
please send a representative to give this woman a constitutional smack-down. Thanks.
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@ChrisMZiegler
What of Roberts rules of Order? Since when do our brother in blue illegally eject citizens from public meetings? Sad, really sad. Politics involved policing.
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@ChrisMZiegler
This is ridiculous! How does that Board member have knowledge aforehand of what a person is going to say? AND it sounded like she was simply going to reiterate something that should be in the Meeting record of a prior School Board Meeting. Is this what the future holds?
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@ChrisMZiegler
Thank God my kids are out of that system and my grandkids go to charter schools.
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@ChrisMZiegler
it's a prior restraint on citizens 1A free speech rights, which the Courts find abhorrent.
Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also violate open meeting laws
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@ChrisMZiegler
If they arrested her for speaking at a public meeting, that would be a violation of the 1st Amendment.
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