Legal group puts 12 universities on notice about free speech violations

A nonprofit dedicated to free speech and civil liberties sent letters to twelve universities which demanded that they change their free speech policies to protect student voices.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation informed twelve universities recently that their policies “operate to deter conservative and libertarian students from sharing their views on campus.”

Specifically, campus “[b]ias reporting systems and bias response teams stifle free expression by establishing a police state on campus, where students who cannot bear to hear views they disagree with report their conservative and libertarian classmates to campus administrators.” Bias systems and teams allow individuals to anonymously report complaints about other individuals.