The Petition to Allow Petitioning at Special Events in Reno, NV
- Target:
- Reno City Council
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- PublicDisplaysofExpression.org
Powerful interest groups in Reno, NV want to prohibit petitioning during special events. These powerful groups are trying to determine for you whom you should and should not be speaking with, and which topics of conversations are permissible at their events, and which topics of conversation are prohibited.
It is as if these powerful groups are trying to tell you that it is acceptable to talk to people you know, about things like the weather or sports, but it is not acceptable to approach someone you do not know and ask them if they would like to talk to you about the weather, sports, gay rights, woman's rights, civil liberties, or any other topic which you deem to be appropriate and worth the time to engage in.
By signing this petition you are informing these groups, and the Reno City Council who approves the permits for these events, that you should be the one who gets to determine whom you speak with, and which topics of conversation you are willing to engage in, and those you would choose not to.
We, the undersigned, call on the Reno City Council to add language to Reno Municpal Code 5.14 that will protect our right to engage in petitioning activities during special events, held on traditional public fora, which are free and open to the public.
We recognize there may be specific situations or particular special events in which there will be a significant governmental interest in implementing time, place, and manner restrictions on petitioning activities in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the attending public. We expect the City Council to clearly articulate the need for any such restrictions, that the restrictions will be narrowly tailored to meet that specific need, and that an alternative channel for expression will be provided.
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The The Petition to Allow Petitioning at Special Events in Reno, NV petition to Reno City Council was written by Public Displays of Expression and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.