{"id":124721,"date":"2024-01-31T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124721"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:37:00","slug":"after-activists-raise-issue-fl-city-removes-restrictions-on-political-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124721","title":{"rendered":"After Activists Raise Issue, FL City Removes Restrictions on Political Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/news\/after-fires-intervention-florida-city-ditches-unconstitutional-restrictions-political-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIRE<\/a>: &#8220;Residents of Belleair Beach in Florida can now gather on public property for \u201cpolitical\u201d events \u2014 even if the group is larger than nine people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">FIRE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/news\/florida-city-bans-political-events-10-plus-people-all-parks-streets-and-sidewalks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0the Belleair Beach city council last March concerning its now-repealed ordinance banning \u201ccommercial, political, or organized\u201d events of 10 or more people on public property. In other words, the law closed off all the city\u2019s public spaces \u2014 parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks \u2014 to even relatively small political protests, rallies, and similar events. And gatherings of at least 10 people that weren\u2019t \u201ccommercial, political, or organized\u201d (how often are gatherings not \u201corganized\u201d?) required a permit&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To the city\u2019s credit, it quickly responded to our letter and pledged to amend the ordinance to eliminate its unconstitutional flaws. Over the next several months, FIRE and Belleair Beach worked together on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/fl\/belleair_beach\/ordinances\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=1247497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new ordinance<\/a>\u00a0that protects citizens\u2019 First Amendment rights while promoting the city\u2019s interest in reasonably regulating the time, place, and manner of speech on public property.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRE: &#8220;Residents of Belleair Beach in Florida can now gather on public property for \u201cpolitical\u201d events \u2014 even if the group is larger than nine people. FIRE\u00a0wrote\u00a0the Belleair Beach city council last March concerning its now-repealed ordinance banning \u201ccommercial, political, or organized\u201d events of 10 or more people on public property. In other words, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124722,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124721\/revisions\/124722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}