A battle is underway in the heart of Teaneck, New Jersey, where a local school board has shown a troubling pattern of speech suppression disguised as decorum.
The newly formed Northwestern Free Speech Alliance has released an open letter asking the university to adopt a strong free expression statement and commit to institutional neutrality.
FIRE has filed an amicus brief on appeal to explain that license plates share messages of car owners, not their governments, and that what amounts to “good taste” or “decency” is hopelessly subjective, allowing authorities to censor any message they don’t like.