A pair of conservative advocacy groups is offering model legislation for state lawmakers to ban “bias reporting systems” from college campuses, saying administrators have used them to punish the constitutionally protected opinions of right-leaning students.
The Arizona-based Goldwater Institute and Speech First, which recently won federal lawsuits against speech codes at the University of Houston and the University of Central Florida on behalf of conservative students, jointly released the one-page document online last week.
It targets hundreds of universities that have implemented bias reporting systems, in which complaints are solicited from students, faculty and others about “offensive” or “unwanted” speech, including social media satire that could be deemed a “microaggression.