Federal Appellate Court Upholds Privacy Limits on Student Identifying Public Comments at Board Meetings – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

Federal Appellate Court Upholds Privacy Limits on Student Identifying Public Comments at Board Meetings – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

In Platt v. Mansfield, a federal appellate court held that parents speaking at a school board meeting were not entitled to a preliminary injunction against Loudon County Board of Education in Virginia.  The parents complained about the board’s enforcement of their Policy 2520, which restricts public comments that identify or criticize individual students. The court, upholding the trial court, which likewise declined the parents’ request, conclud…