‘Students Can’t Even Express An Opinion’: Major University Sued Over Speech Policies
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ALEXA SCHWERHA
CONTRIBUTOR
January 11, 2023
10:47 AM ET
Oklahoma State University (OSU) violated students’ First and Fourteenth amendment rights by enforcing policies which police speech concerning political and social issues, according to a lawsuit filed by legal group Speech First on Tuesday.
OSU enforces policies which “deter, suppress, and punish speech about political and social issues of the day,” according to the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. It specifically challenges three issues Speech First alleges violates student speech rights: the harassment policy, the computer use policy and the Bias Incident Response system. (RELATED: Over Half Of Colleges Encourage Students To Snitch On Each Other: REPORT)
“Oklahoma State’s policies are clearly designed to monitor, investigate, and restrict student speech all together,” Cherise Trump, Speech First executive director, said in a press release. “The fact that students can’t even express an opinion without worrying that another student can use a campus policy to report on them shows us that the school’s administrators have no interest in protecting students’ rights.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/11/oklahoma-state-university-sued-free-speech-policy-violations/
