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Council adopts city flag‑handling and display policy after citing 2022 Supreme Court ruling
Summary
Perris adopted a formal flag display policy limiting flags flown on city property to government speech (including military branch flags at the veterans memorial) to avoid compelled private‑speech issues after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Shurtleff v. City of Boston (2022). The resolution passed 5‑0.
The Perris City Council adopted a formal Flag Handling and Display Policy to establish a government‑speech approach for flags flown at city facilities. Assistant City Manager Wendell Bugtai presented the proposed policy and cited a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Shurtleff v. City of Boston) in which the Court held that a municipal practice that allowed many privately requested flags to be flown on city…
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