Free Speech Areas and Campus Access at Los Angeles Southwest 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)