High School Suspends 2 Students for Posting Gun Range Photos on Snapchat, ACLU Files Suit

[ThinkingSapien]

High School Suspends 2 Students for Posting Gun Range Photos on Snapchat, ACLU Files Suit

"Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions," Cody Conroy told Reason.

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“Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions,” Cody Conroy told Reason.​

Two male students at Lacey Township High School in New Jersey posted photos of guns on Snapchat. One of the boys captioned his photo with “hot stuff” and “if there’s ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go.”

The photos were not taken at school. They were not taken during school hours. They did not reference a school. They auto-deleted after 24 hours, which was well before the school became aware of them. And yet, administrators at Lacey Township High School suspended the boys for three days, and also gave them weekend detention.

This was a clear violation of the students’ First Amendment rights, and the American Civil Liberties Union has now filed suit.

“Young people have the right to express themselves, and, with rare exceptions, they shouldn’t face punishment by school administrators for it,” said C.J. Griiffin, a partner at the law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, who is representing the students along with the ACLU.

Opinion of a lawyer:

 

[Lemuel]

And people still send their kids to these awful institutions.

Lord help us …

 

[Theo520]

I wonder if they suspend kids for posting their weekend party pics,
where they are doing illegal stuff.

 

[prayerrider]

How ridiculous. Lawsuit by ACLU, no less. Hope the school district learns a lesson.
There’s a man at our local range whom I’ve seen teaching his grandkids, usually his granddaughter, to shoot. She’s getting quite good. I don’t know if she Snapchats about it. Who cares?