No Photo Finish Here: Big Victory for Speech Rights in Silver Spring
From Marc Fisher, Washington Post:
“In the continuing saga of a private developer’s attempt to restrict freedom of speech in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett today delivered a powerful blow to those who would ban photography, political campaigning and other forms of speech on publicly-owned but privately-managed streets.
Leggett wrote to executives at The Peterson Companies and Foulger Pratt, the companies that built and control the $400 million downtown Silver Spring development, to make it clear that the county cannot stomach the developer’s position in the controversy that exploded this summer after nearby resident Chip Py was prevented from taking pictures on what appears to be a public space.”