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California School Apologizes For Illegally Banning Sixth Grader?s Presentation On Harvey Milk

By ACLU

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RAMONA, CA ? A California school has apologized to a sixth grader for illegally censoring her classroom presentation about Harvey Milk last month, and school officials promise they won't engage in unconstitutional restriction of similar free speech in the future. The apology comes after the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter on May 30 to the Ramona Unified School District about its violation of the student?s free speech rights when it refused to allow her to give the presentation in class. Wrongly citing a school policy on sex education, the school had improperly required classmates to get parental permission to see the presentation during a lunch recess.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).

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