The majority of public school districts in Arizona have a ban on “offensive” speech that a federal appeals court said “runs afoul” of constitutional protections for free expression, putting parents at risk of civil rights violations and schools at risk of legal liability.
A federal jury awarded a Tucson mom $200,000 after finding the Marana Unified School District retaliated against her for exercising her First Amendment free speech rights. The problem was the district’s policy about “Public Conduct on School Property.”
The policy bans campus interference and disruption through the “use of speech or language that is offensive or inappropriate” for an “educational environment.”…