Seattle community colleges revise proposal for restrictions on protests
Apr 11, 2012, 6:34 AM | Updated: 7:40 am
The Seattle Central Community College campus was the site of an Occupy Seattle protest last fall. (97.3 KIRO FM/file)
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Seattle community colleges are cutting back their list of proposed regulations for campus protests.
The Seattle Times reports the community colleges have abandoned portions of a new proposal that would have imposed strict rules for protesters on campus.
The rules would have required non-student protesters to sign up on campus for security reasons, limit the size of picket signs, and restrict them to specific areas on campus.
After students, staff and the ACLU said that the rules restricted free speech, Chancellor Jill Wakefield has cut down the proposed rule changes.
The rule changes included in the new proposal ask that protests be held between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. and still prohibits camping on campus.
