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Escondido’s Special Events Permitting Ordinance Unconstitutionally Restricts Free Speech
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: So SDPD, Let Photojournalists “Speak”
San Diego, CA – Concerned that the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) may be interfering with the First Amendment rights of photojournalists to record events occurring in public, the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties sent a letter to Police Chief William Lansdowne emphasizing the strong legal protections enjoyed by journalists and members of the public alike.
Escondido Doubles Down: Protests Are Okay… Except Most of the Time
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Videos below of two different incidents in which the Escondido Police Department unlawfully relocated protesters and stopped them from videotaping a checkpoint.
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Surprising Coalition of Free Speech Advocates Join to Protect Marine’s Rights
SAN DIEGO—To protect service members when they comment on issues of public concern, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties is joining with Gary Kreep and Nathan Oleson, of the United States Justice Foundation, Oathkeepers, J. Mark Brewer, of Brewer & Pritchard, and Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson, of William J. Olson, P.C., to file a lawsuit today seeking to stop the Marine Corps from discharging Sergeant Gary Stein because he exercised his First Amendment rights.
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