Before YAL launched its Hazlitt Action program in 2021, YAL activists were already working to support legislation that would directly impact their lives on college campuses. Senate Bill 40 in Ohio was FORUM Act legislation that protected students from bureaucratic overreach like Free Speech Zones and prior-permission permits. YAL activists showed up in Columbus to...Read More

A student at the University of Akron was handing out copies of the Constitution when a campus administrator told him to leave or else he could be charged with criminal trespassing. Fortunately, after FIRE got involved, the university was open to reforming their policies. They suspended the ones challenged by FIRE until they could conduct...Read More

In 2012, FIRE coordinated a legal challenge to an unconstitutional free speech zone policy at the University of Cincinnati that limited all “demonstrations, pickets, and rallies” to a “Free Speech Area.” The policy further required all activity in the free speech zone to be registered ten working days in advance, threatening that “anyone violating this...Read More