The fundraising arm for a public media outlet says Pensacola State College is trying to seize control of its donations as part of an effort to eliminate PBS programming in Florida, and it’s asking a federal judge to keep the nonprofit independent.
The class action lawsuit, filed Dec. 11 in Tallahassee federal court, argues that donations to the WSRE-TV Foundation constitutes “speech protected by the First Amendment.”
The lawsuit comes nearly three months after Pensacola State College sought to dissolve the WSRE-TV Foundation and absorb its assets…