Georgias colleges and universities would be required to expand areas designated for free speech under legislation filed in the state House on Thursday. <\/p>\n
House Bill 471, byRep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, says public colleges and universities may notlimit or restrict a students expression or discipline a student because others oppose the students speech. <\/p>\n
Any member of the university community who wishes to engage in expressive activity shall be permitted to do so, the bill says, in anygenerally accessible outdoor areas of campuses. <\/p>\n
But the bill also says schools may not deny agroup of students the right to form an organization ordiscriminate against a student organization based on the expression of the organization. <\/p>\n
Brockway said the bill includes protections for schools to combat harassment or bullying and from organizations like the KKK from forming on campuses. <\/p>\n
They have these tinyfree speech zones, that gives ahecklers veto to anyone who opposes what is being said, Brockway said.<\/p>\n
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