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Public commenters clash with board over profanity policy and library materials; trustees urged to follow complaint process
Summary
Three speakers at the March 24 Lawrence Board of Education meeting criticized the board’s enforcement of an obscene‑language policy for public commenters and pointed to explicit language appearing in district library books.
Three speakers who participated in the meeting’s public‑comment period criticized the board’s rules on obscene language and compared enforcement of speaker decorum to books available in district libraries.
Justin Speese, who identified himself during the meeting as a public commenter, opened the series of comments by accusing a board member of calling him “crazy” at a prior meeting and then used profanity while arguing the board’s decorum enforcement was inconsistent with books…
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