Democratic National Convention planners still haven’t resolved how they will accommodate protesters. Fortunately, watchdogs are following the situation closely:
A judge may be forced to decide how close protesters can get to the Democratic National Convention this summer, as was the case in Los Angeles four years ago, a Boston Police official said Saturday.
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Convention officials planned to create a ”free speech zone” out of sight of the FleetCenter, but they were challenged by the ACLU and the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, both of whom want space closer to the main facility. The sides met last week, but there’s no agreement.
”We may end up in court,” Dunford said at the John F. Kennedy Library during a media conference sponsored by The Associated Press, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, and Emerson College. ”We just have to find a space that’s suitable for security reasons and also meets the First Amendment rights.”