The Eleventh Circuit has ruled for Mom’s for Liberty in its challenge to the Brevard County School Board’s absurd speech restriction policies. The court repeatedly criticized the Board’s enforcement of these policies, which it used to repeatedly silence parents raising concerns relating to COVID-19 and LGBT issues in their kids’ schools. As the court explained regarding the school board’s policy prohibiting speech about board members, “Asking if the Board’s approach to this policy was ‘haphazard’ is like asking if the sky is blue—enforcement was so inconsistent that it is impossible to discern the standard used to assess which speech was permitted at any given meeting.” The Board had also cut off a parent who was reading from a sexually explicit book found in a school library. Getting to the heart of the issue, the court noted, “[I]t is remarkable for the Board to suggest that this speech can be prohibited in a school board meeting because it is inappropriate for children when it came directly from a book that is available to children in their elementary school library.” Advancing American Freedom is proud to have led a coalition of 13 other amici supporting Moms for Liberty and the courageous parents it represents.
“We applaud the courts ruling and its clarity,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Parents everywhere, and especially in Florida and the other states covered by the Eleventh Circuit, should be encouraged to continue fighting to hold their elected representatives accountable when those representatives try to use schools as centers of woke indoctrination.”
AAF’s amicus brief in this case can be found here.
