Fayette County school board members drop policy to muzzle dissent after outcry

The Fayette County Board of Education will not be voting on a recommended policy that would prevent board members from issuing a comment to the media on their dissenting votes.

“I don’t think we want to put ourselves in a position of trying to police what individuals say or don’t say in their individual capacities,” school board chairman Tyler Murphy said at Monday night’s school board meeting.

The policy, which appeared on the agenda prior to Monday’s monthly school board meeting, would have required elected board members to instead direct media inquiries post-vote to the chairman, in this case, Murphy…

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