Honest Mistake Still Violate First Amendment
The Norwalk BOE created a new rule to limit public comments at a June 10 Special Meeting. It violated the First Amendment. The changes since made to that new rule still violate the First Amendment. Here's why . . . As one speaker articulated at June 3rd’s Board of Education budget meeting, the City Charter dictates that the members of the Board of Education are elected to serve the interests of our community in supervising the work of the Superintendent, in overseeing the hiring of all public school employees and in crafting the school department budget. Therefore, it would be unimaginable to think that any Board member would intentionally want to mislead the public about what is actually contained in the budget or limit the public’s right to participate in the budget process. But mistakes can and have been made that merit a purely factual review. As a former BOE member, current dad to an almost-sixth-grader & Norwalk taxpayer, I have a vested interest ...