Free-speech restrictions on America’s public college campuses are frequently the subject of federal and state litigation. College administrators frequently lose or quietly settle the lawsuits.
A freshman at a public community college in Arizona has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a tiny, restrictive campus free-speech zone.
The student is Brittany Mirelez, reports The Daily Signal.
Mirelez attends Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, Ariz.
In October, Paradise Valley official Mike Ho, the director of student life, booted Mirelez from the school’s small campus zone for political speech because she had failed to seek administrative permission to use the space.
Mirelez had placed a temporary table in the space and was attempting to promote Young Americans for Liberty, a limited-government-focused group she is starting at the community college.
She filmed her altercation with Ho. Campus Reform has the video.
Ho explained to Mirelez and a Young Americans for Liberty field representative — also at the makeshift table — that the Maricopa County Community College District has a two-year-old policy mandating free speech zones on its 10 campuses.
“The public has the right to use this space within a two-day notification period,” Ho explained.
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