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The Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to Richmond officials questioning the free-speech implications of the city’s plan to lease Monroe Park to a nonprofit conservancy.

The ACLU letter, dated Wednesday and sent to City Attorney Allen Jackson, questions the lease details and urges city officials to maintain the park as a public forum for political assembly and expression.

“As public space becomes increasingly scarce, it is essential that we maintain public parks as forums for expression,” Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, the ACLU of Virginia’s executive director, said in a news release.

The letter asks Jackson to clarify several issues surrounding the lease with the Monroe Park Conservancy. It asks whether the park will continue to be available for larger rallies and demonstrations, whether individuals and small groups will be allowed to give out leaflets, register voters and solicit petition signatures and how the conservancy’s use policies will be crafted and enforced.