Tag Archives: right to free speech
Criminal Threats: Not a Form of Protected Speech
Although the U.S. Constitution guarantees all citizens the right to free speech, that right does not protect all forms of speech. There are long-recognized limitations on what exactly constitutes free speech. There are, for example, prohibitions against libel, slander and criminal threats. A criminal threat involves one person threatening another with physical harm. This threat […]
Police Take Person into Custody for Making Threats to Suburban Schools on 9/11
Law enforcement officers arrested an individual who allegedly made several racist threats to students online in the Philadelphia suburbs. The threats were reportedly made on Sunday, September 10, but were made in reference to the school day on Monday, September 11. That was the 16th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and […]