Free Speech Areas and Campus Access at Los Angeles Pierce College
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION B-38
I. Background
Education Code Section 76120 requires the Board of Trustees to adopt
rules and regulations relating to the exercise of free expression by students
upon the premises of each Community College campus. This section
requires that these rules and regulations include provisions for the time,
place, and manner for conducting free speech activities. The Board of
Trustees has delegated to the Chancellor the responsibility for developing
and implementing the required free speech rules and regulations on each
LACCD campus.
The Chancellor, or his/her designee, shall work with each College
President to identify campus areas available for student expressive activity
and to develop the required time, place and manner regulations applicable to
the exercise of free expression by students. In addition, the College
President at each College shall identify a portion of his/her college campus
as a Free Speech Area(s), and develop appropriate regulations to govern the
use of such area(s). The identified Free Speech Area(s) is/are areas
available to all persons for First Amendment activities, including the
distribution of free literature or materials, and obtaining petition signatures.
The purpose of these regulations is to foster free speech, assembly, and
other expressive activities, while addressing the need of each Community
College campus to make necessary arrangements to assure that such
activities do not interfere with the College’s mission and operations or with
the rights of others. Accordingly, these regulations are intended to facilitate
peaceable assembly, the expression of ideas and opinions, and the distribution
of materials, while ensuring the safe, orderly and peaceful flow of College
business and activities.
Each campus shall have copies of this Administrative Regulation,
copies of the campus time, place and manner regulation, and copies of the
campus map identifying the FSA(s) and areas available for student
expressive activity on hand at all times. Copies of this Administrative
Regulation, the campus map, and the campus regulation shall be provided to
persons seeking to use these areas.
II. Accessing the Free Speech Area(s)