As we noted this week, Sinclair Community College in Ohio recently censored the free speech of participants and attendees at a religious freedom rally hosted by SCC’s Traditional Values Club. As photo and video evidence shows, police at the event forced all attendees to put away handheld signs supporting the event—a blatantly unconstitutional restriction of their right to free expression on the SCC campus. Amazingly, SCC police say they have had a policy prohibiting campus signage in place since 1990.

FIRE has written to SCC asking the college to immediately disavow the police’s actions here and prevent this censorship from happening again. We also want to hear from Sinclair CC students and student organizations who may have suffered similar censorship. Has this happened to you or someone you know? FIRE wants to know, which is why yesterday I sent the following message to several SCC student organizations. Please forward this message on to students you know at Sinclair Community College, and encourage them to do the same.