BART: 1st Amendment issues mount over cell shutdown

[SandraJane]

SFGate

BART: 1st Amendment issues mount over cell shutdown

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, August 15, 2011

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/14/MNTC1KNC27.DTL#ixzz1VCeW5mE7

In 1967, the California Supreme Court ruled that a city couldn't prohibit non-disruptive political activity inside a railroad station.

That was before cellular phones were invented and before the first BART train rolled down the tracks. But it's a precedent the transit agency may have to confront as it defends its decision to cut off cell service at the site of an expected track-side protest last Thursday, and its long-standing ban on "expressive activities" inside the fare gates.



*note; Thanks to Tekla for digging this article up!

[tekla]

Thanks to Big Mike, who is a lawyer and has been posting to FB on this.  I've been too worried and talking about staging myself to think much about it.

[Mahsa Tezani]

Yeah, you know it's dangerous to protest in a train and annoying right?

Most bay area "protesters" are selfish nincompoops.