If School Board President Eric Lawson’s goal was to create an “orderly” meeting, as he stated at the September 22nd school board meeting, he accomplished the opposite.

In a treatise that took in excess of two minutes to read, Lawson has created an extensive list of what audience members are prohibited from doing or saying during public comment time. To enforce these rules, Lawson has two Sheriff Deputies posted at the meetings. He has threatened to have the deputies remove anyone from the meetings he feels have violated his dictates, much of which is a violation of 1st Amendment Rights.

While Lawson cited “Robert’s Rules of Order” as the foundation on which he has built an elaborate list of possible meeting violations, a speaker during the public comment time cited 1st Amendment Rights a

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