{"id":29959,"date":"2014-12-02T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29959"},"modified":"2021-10-18T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:38:41","slug":"uh-reaffirms-commitment-to-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/02\/uh-reaffirms-commitment-to-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> reaffirms commitment to free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/system-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> has settled a federal lawsuit alleging the university violated free speech rights on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo<\/a> campus. The case is expected to be dismissed with prejudice in the next several weeks, meaning it cannot be re-filed.<\/p>\n<p>As a public institution, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is committed to upholding the constitutional rights of expression of all students. As part of the settlement 糖心Vlog官方 has updated and modernized longstanding policies regarding the exercise of free speech rights on the university&#8217;s campuses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Free-Speech-Policy-final-12-1-2014.pdf\">Download the new policy (<small>PDF<\/small>).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The settlement agreement states that this action does not constitute an admission of liability on the part of the university or its employees who were sued. As part of the settlement, the university will pay plaintiffs and their attorneys a total of $50,000, including attorneys&#8217; fees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/15\/uh-hilo-adopts-interim-policy-on-speech-and-assembly\/\">&ldquo;<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo adopts interim policy on speech and assembly,&rdquo; May 15, 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/25\/uh-statement-on-free-speech-suit-against-uh-hilo\/\">&ldquo;<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> statement on free speech suit against <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo,&rdquo; April 25, 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has settled a federal lawsuit alleging the university violated free speech rights on the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28],"tags":[14,947],"class_list":["post-29959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29959"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149949,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions\/149949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}