Committee debates public-comment redlines amid First Amendment concerns
Legal counsel told Portland—s policy committee that public comment is a limited public forum and that the district may restrict disruptive or threatening speech but cannot impose viewpoint-based bans; members debated whether to keep language listing protected categories or to adopt behavior-based wording.
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Portland—s policy committee spent a substantial portion of its Dec. 8 meeting debating proposed redlines to its public-participation policy (BEDH), focusing on whether language barring "pejorative or discriminatory" remarks could prompt First Amendment challenges.
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