Subject: LAWSUIT: College that jailed student for passing out Constitutions is still chilling speech Thu May 25, 2017 11:04 pm
Kellogg Community College dropped charges against students that were passing out copies of the Constitution after they lawyered up, “but the chilling effect of this arrest lingers to this day and will linger until the policies underlying it are enjoined,” said a filing by a legal group defending the students. The Alliance Defending Freedom asked a federal judge to suspend the two policies – only one of them written – used by Michigan’s KCC to halt the Young Americans for Liberty members and their “associates” from distributing literature on a campus sidewalk. In an encounter caught on video, an administrator told the group it was violating the solicitation policy by asking passers-by if they “like freedom and liberty” – a question that students from “rural farm areas” might feel compelled to answer. One of the students, Michelle Gregoire, even went to jail, along with two YAL officials.