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The First Amendment protects academic freedom and the right to share ideas, including the right of individuals to receive information and knowledge. Instead of encouraging learning, Noem’s executive order will have a chilling effect on academic freedom.
To begin to heal and move toward real racial equality, we must address the unlawful discrimination in our community today. We unequivocally condemn the recent blatant, racist denial of services to Native Americans at a hotel and bar in Rapid City.
House Bill 1012 creates more questions than answers and leaves South Dakota educators and administrators with the burden of navigating exactly what it means to comply with this law. It opens the door for a wide range of interpretations that could be used to chill free speech and academic freedom.
The ACLU of South Dakota opposed House Bill 1337. The First Amendment protects academic freedom and the right to share ideas, including the right of individuals to receive information and knowledge.
Medication abortion is safe, common and essential health care. South Dakotans deserve the right to make their own personal decisions about their lives and futures without politicians getting in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship.
House Bill 1012 is poorly written and lacks clarity, opening the door for a wide range of interpretations that could be used to chill free speech and academic freedom, discouraging open and honest discussions about systemic racism in classrooms and in school communities.