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Council narrows direction on city flag policy: keep official flags at city hall, leave leased properties alone
Summary
After a staff presentation on legal risks, the council gave staff informal direction to treat city flagpoles as government speech for official flags (including department flags) and to leave leased properties’ flag use largely unregulated; staff will draft a policy.
The council received a legal presentation on options for governing display of flags on city-owned flagpoles and gave staff direction to prepare a revised policy reflecting the council’s preference.
Outside counsel Mona Ebrahimi and Interim City Attorney Rhianna Daniel reviewed three legal frameworks courts use to analyze government property used for speech — government speech, limited public forum and traditional public forum — and described…
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