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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of assembly, but at Sinclair \u2013 like other public institutions \u2013 you have to get permission first.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe (Sinclair) have an open campus, so anyone can come on campus and speak to people, but we have a campus access policy that they have to go by,\u201d said Director of Public Safety Charles Gift.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The policy requires people to apply for a Request for Visitor Use of Space Form, according to Gift.\u00a0 Then, they have to fill out the paperwork and present it to Director of Business Services Jeff Miller one week prior to coming on campus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBusiness Services determines where that assembly will occur,\u201d said Gift.\u00a0 \u201cThe problem arrives when someone doesn\u2019t go through the proper channels for approval and they come on campus with loud speakers, signs and want to pass out literature \u2013 that is prohibited.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n On May 20, four demonstrators were arrested and one was given a citation at Sinclair.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing I can say about what occurred here (on May 20) is that they had been advised previously of the policies and procedures and they came back to campus and did not follow the policies and procedures,\u201d said Gift. <\/span><\/p>\n Although Sinclair is a public college that is partially funded by tax dollars, court decisions have set precedence that allows Sinclair to decide how they regulate protests, according to Gift.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe White House is funded by public money, but you can\u2019t go on White House property unless you\u2019re on a tour.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get arrested by the Secret Service if you\u2019re caught over the fence there,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n These policies are in place to avoid disruption to the educational process and to protect students and property, according to the Sinclair Access Policy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf we didn\u2019t have policies like this, where would we be if two or three groups that opposed each other all came together at the same place, at the same time to assemble and exercise their freedom of speech?\u201d Gift asked.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of assembly, but at Sinclair \u2013 like other public institutions \u2013 you have to get permission first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[561,563,562,560,564,1402,14],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-charles","tag-director","tag-gift","tag-protesting","tag-public-safety","tag-samuel-huist","tag-sinclair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15444,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/15444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}