Court Strikes Down Arkansas Town Limit on Signature Gathering at Town Festival
From Thursday’s decision by Chief Judge Kristine Baker (E.D. Ark.) in For AR Kids v. Town of Rose Bud (paragraph numbers omitted):
For AR Kids is a Ballot Question Committee organized under Arkansas Law in December 2023 with the purpose of placing its “Educational Rights Amendment of 2024” on the November 2024 ballot. The proposed amendment would amend Article 14 of the Arkansas Constitution to, among other things, require all schools receiving public funds to meet identical standards and would require universal access to pre-K education….
You can see the text of the proposed Amendment here.
[P]laintiff challenges the Town’s ordinance No. 2024-03 passed and adopted by the Town on June 17, 2024. {[The Ordinance] provides in part that “any business or religious or political entity desiring to solicit business, membership or signature for any purpose will be required to rent a booth or spot as selected by the City of Rose Bud, Arkansas, at any such event from which and only from which such solicitation activities may be conducted.”} The Town seeks to enforce Ordinance No. 2024-03 at its upcoming event “Summerfest” which takes place in a public park from June 20, 2024, at 4 p.m. until June 22.
The Ordinance was first introduced at a meeting of the Town Council on June 13, 2024, after a member of the Ballot Qu
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