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Supervisors debate Marina Times contract renewal amid First Amendment concerns; vote to approve
Summary
After a week of debate, the Board approved designating Marina Times as a neighborhood outreach periodical and renewing fiscal-year advertising, while several supervisors warned against using political views as a basis for city contracting and said the city needs clearer objective standards for news outlets that receive public funds.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Dec. 8 to designate Jasmine Blue Media LLC doing business as the Marina Times as a neighborhood outreach periodical and to authorize outreach advertising for fiscal year 2020–2021.
The vote followed spirited remarks from supervisors who described a tension between concerns about particular publications’ content and the First Amendment rights of independent news outlets that contract with the city.
Why it matters: The city’s contracts to place public outreach advertising in neighborhood publications are governed by…
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