After a two-year legal battle, ADF has convinced a Florida college to revise its onerous and restrictive speech policy.
Palm Beach State College has agreed to revise its speech code so that it no longer requires students to obtain permission to express themselves on and off campus. Alliance Defending Freedom attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow what things were like before the modifications were made.
"They had this off-campus policy," the attorney details. "So, if you're in a student group and wanted to have a get-together in somebody's apartment or home off campus, you had to get permission from the college to do that, and then staff members had to attend -- just very restrictive policies on students' ability to gather, associate with one another."
He suggests such policies, whether at Palm Beach State or on other campuses, are risky in a free society.
"That sets a dangerous precedent," Hacker asserts. "If we're teaching our students in college that you can shut down somebody else's speech, I mean, that's a very dangerous precedent for our society and one that shouldn't be tolerated."
In 2010, the conservative Young Americans for Freedom was forced to shut down during a club rush because the liberal student activities administrator, Olivia Ford-Morris, was not pleased with their views.
ADF has sent letters concerning problematic free speech policies to more than 100 campuses so far.