Public schools and police departments that threaten the public for recording interactions with on-duty officials are in the crosshairs of transparency groups, one of which just triumphed over a school district that tried to hide its diversity, equity and inclusion training.
The Goldwater Institute is saber-rattling against Indiana’s Whitley County Consolidated Schools for banning a mother for a year or more from contacting staff and entering its school buildings, backed by the threat of arrest for trespassing, after she recorded a meeting with her daughter’s principal about alleged misconduct by bus drivers and posted it online.
The Arizona-based conservative group protected its victory for a different mother, Anne Tretheway, earlier this month when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to hear the Downington Area School District’s appeal of a ruling this spring that its DEI training materials were not a “trade secret” exempt from public disclosure to Trethewey.
The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression stayed closer to home when it sued Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for prosecuting Phil Rishel for disorderly conduct and loitering – criticizing and recording officers outside the police station, sometimes using profanity – and driving toward him on the sidewalk when Rishel wouldn’t stop.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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