Trustee urges clearer proclamation policy; board agrees to workshop
Trustee Daniel urged the Board of Trustees to adopt objective, content-neutral criteria for proclamations to avoid viewpoint discrimination and legal risk; Trustee Brent called for eliminating nonessential proclamations and the board agreed to consider revisions at a workshop.
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Trustee Daniel on June 26 read a prepared statement urging the Mancos Board of Trustees to tighten the town's proclamation policy to avoid viewpoint discrimination and potential legal challenges. "If we're going to restrict speech with a policy then we must have a strong objective framework with clearly defined content-neutral criteria," Daniel said, citing the Supreme Court's concern about viewpoint discrimination in public forums.
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