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Livonia residents and council debate free‑speech limits and meeting decorum
Summary
A resident read Michigan’s Open Meetings Act clauses on speech rights; council members responded by stressing decorum rules for orderly meetings and asked the law department to clarify legal boundaries.
A Livonia resident read passages from the Michigan Open Meetings Act and the First Amendment at Monday’s council meeting, prompting a wider discussion among council members about what public‑meeting decorum the city may lawfully require. “Speech . . . is constitutionally protected unless it truly interferes with the ability to conduct the council to conduct business,” resident James Biga told the council, citing Michigan statute language and arguing the city may not require a speaker to…
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