The Whole Truth With Jill Rosensweig

Is Placing "No Trick or Treating" Signs in Sex Offenders' Yards Unconstitutional?

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Sinopsis

In this week's episode of the podcast, Attorney Rosensweig is discussing a class action lawsuit that was filed by three convicted sex offenders last month against a sheriff in Butts County Georgia who put "no trick or treating" signs in their yards just before Halloween last year.  The petitioners in the case are claiming that the signs constitute compelled speech in violation of their first amendment rights.  Do these signs qualify as "compelled speech" when the signs themselves make clear that the message is coming from the sheriff's office? Is speech that is clearly coming from the government unconstitutional if a citizen is being forced to display that speech on their private property?  Ms. Rosensweig compares this case to the landmark Wooley case, where the Court decided that it was unconstitutional to force someone to display a license plate that says "Live Free or Die" on their car since this qualified as "ideological speech" and the plaintiff in that c