The Anatomy of a Campus Facilities Use Policy

 

General Provisions

• Purposes and limits (including time, place and manner restrictions)
• Facility and forum types: academic facilities; arenas, conference centers, student unions; quadrangles, squares, streets and sidewalks (including “free speech zones”)
• Leaflets, signs, literature
• Commercial solicitations
• Partisan political activity

Implementing Provisions

• Use priorities
• Fees and costs
• Permitting
• Insurance and indemnity
• Security and costs


• Food and alcohol
• "Fronting" organizations

Key First Amendment Concepts for Facilities Use Policies

• Public v. Private Institutions
• Forums
• Content Neutrality
• Viewpoint Neutrality
• Heckler's Veto

Questions and Answers

Controversial Campus Speakers, Heckles, Protests and Disruption

• Planning for controversial speakers
• Prohibiting or rescinding invitations?
• Pre-emptive and post-event public relations
• Policing protests and preventing "heckler vetos"
• Security and cost issues

Ripped from the Headlines: Case Studies

Questions and Answers