Interim Campus Use Procedures for Unrestricted Outdoor Areas
Georgia Institute of Technology
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As one of its strategic guiding values, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) safeguards freedom of inquiry and expression. As such, we protect the freedom of all members of our community to ask questions, seek truth, and express their views. We cherish diversity of ideas as necessary for learning, discovery, scholarship, and creativity. In living this value every day, we strive to protect the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, including the right to free speech, free expression, free exercise of religion, and the right to assemble.
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Georgia Tech is a forum for the open exchange of ideas and opinions. To that end, the unrestricted outdoor areas of campus are deemed public forums for Georgia Tech’s campus community. Georgia Tech will only limit or regulate the content of speech as minimally necessary to achieve a compelling Institute interest, including preserving the safety and welfare of individuals, or ensuring the delivery of our educational mission. However, the Institute may impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on the use of campus facilities to ensure that speech activities do not disrupt the educational and administrative functions of the Institute or interfere with the rights of others. These restrictions will be applied on a content-neutral and viewpoint neutral basis.
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Provisions for the Campus Community
Planned Expressive Activity. Georgia Tech recommends that community members engaging in planned expressive activity make a reservation prior to use so that Georgia Tech may minimize scheduling conflicts and accommodate all interested users.
Spontaneous Expression. Georgia Tech reserves the right to direct individuals and/or groups to another available area of campus to ensure the safety of campus members, to provide proper crowd control, and/or to limit disruption of the academic and other operations of the Institute. The Institute must not consider or impose restrictions based on the content or viewpoint of the expression when relocating or redirecting any expression.