SFGate
BART: 1st Amendment issues mount over cell shutdown
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, August 15, 2011
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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!
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.
Yeah, you know it's dangerous to protest in a train and annoying right?
Most bay area "protesters" are selfish nincompoops.