Law’s Andrew Geronimo discusses changes to comment rules for Cleveland City Council meetings

Cleveland City Council, accused of restricting free speech, reforms public comment rules

cleveland.comAndrew Geronimo, director of the First Amendment Clinic at the School of Law, discussed new changes to the rules at Cleveland City Council meetings as it faces a free-speech lawsuit arguing that the previous rules were unconstitutional. He noted that the new policy is an “improvement” over council’s prior rules, but that it “still contains some vague and problematic portions that we will have to evaluate.”