Joliet Junior College
Location: Joliet, Illinois
Website: http://www.jjc.edu/
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Federal Circuit: 7th Circuit
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Joliet Junior College — Stand Up For Speech Lawsuit
January 11, 2018
Police detained student Ivette Salazar because she was distributing flyers on campus without permission.
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Lawsuit: Joliet Junior College workers stopped student from distributing political fliers
January 17, 2018
By Alicia Fabbre at The Chicago Tribune Saying her First Amendment rights were violated, a 24-year-old Joliet Junior College student is suing the school after she claims she was prohibited from handing out political fliers… Read more here.
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Student Detained For Distributing Anti-Capitalism Fliers Sues University for Free Speech Violations
January 12, 2018
By Taylor Swaak at Newsweek An Illinois student detained in November for passing out anti-capitalism fliers on campus is suing her university and various officials, alleging the ordeal violated multiple amendment rights, including free speech… Read more here.
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Student Sues Community College Over Free Speech Rights
January 12, 2018
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf at Inside Higher Ed An Illinois community college student has sued her institution alleging a free speech violation when campus police detained her and confiscated leaflets she was passing out that were critical of capitalism… Read more here.
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Illinois college sued over ‘free speech zone’
January 11, 2018
By AP at The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago college student is suing her school for allegedly violating her free-speech rights by prohibiting her from handing out flyers from a socialist group that read, “Shut Down Capitalism.”.. Read more here.
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Report: Academics worldwide face frequent, alarming threats
October 25, 2018
This week, Scholars at Risk released Free to Think 2018, its fourth report in an annual series addressing threats faced by academics around the world. The report offers a sobering analysis of the methods — including violence, imprisonment, and travel restrictions — opponents of free expression and academic freedom use to target vocal members of the higher education community. Among the report’s most disturbing findings is that 79 violent attacks against higher education communities occurred in 27 countries over the past year, where “[a]t least 77 students, scholars, staff, campus security personnel, and others died in these attacks, with hundreds […]
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VICTORY: Student detained for passing out political flyers settles lawsuit with Illinois college
April 18, 2018
CHICAGO, April 18, 2018 — Student Ivette Salazar and Joliet Junior College agreed today to settle Salazar’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Illinois college after she was detained for handing out political flyers. Salazar’s suit, filed Jan. 11, prompted policy changes that will protect the speech rights of the more than 38,000 JJC students. Salazar was detained in November 2017 for distributing flyers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation that read “Shut Down Capitalism.” She was reported by campus staff, detained and interrogated by JJC police, and told she could not distribute her flyers without the college’s permission. The […]
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FIRE files lawsuit on behalf of Illinois student detained by police for ‘Shut Down Capitalism’ flyers
January 11, 2018
A campus police officer told student Ivette Salazar she has freedom of speech only if Joliet Junior College approves it. CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2018 — Joliet Junior College student Ivette Salazar only wanted to do what Americans do every day: exercise her First Amendment right to respond to an opposing viewpoint. For that, campus police detained her, confiscated her political flyers, and told her she has freedom of speech only if JJC gives its approval. That’s not how the First Amendment works, and that’s why Salazar filed a lawsuit today against JJC. The lawsuit is the latest for the Foundation […]
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