FIRE works closely with lawmakers across the country and political spectrum to protect civil liberties and stands ready to help legislators secure legislative victories.
FIRE’s Legislative and Policy Program promotes legislation and policy that protects our right to freedom of speech, while combating measures that would restrict the exercise of that crucial right.
Model Legislation: Campus Free Expression Act
Model Legislation:College Student Free Speech and Association Act
FIRE supports legislation that promotes fair and reliable non-academic campus disciplinary hearings on college campuses. We also work with policymakers to defeat measures that would further undermine fundamental fairness and to promote those that ensure that the campus judiciary provides meaningful due process protections to students accused of infractions.
Religious liberty is one of the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. That is why ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ supports legislation that ensures that college students of faith have the same rights to campus resources as other students. ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ opposes policies that would prohibit students from forming belief-based organizations that require their members and leaders to adhere to the organization’s beliefs and promotes policies that protect diversity through pluralism.
Kansas Governor Signs Bill Protecting Students Religious Liberty
This bill protects the independence of campus media at public post-secondary educational institutions.
FIRE promotes legislation that protects student and faculty rights to freedom of speech and due process. Is your campus protected?
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