A public school teacher’s free speech rights protected him from punishment for posting political messages to Facebook even if that speech discussed sex and child abuse, a Florida court of appeals ruled Friday.
Messages criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) ahead of the 2020 election, including a repost of a joke about a parent who spat on, punched, and threw a bottle at a child for wearing a pro-Sanders shirt, were protected political speech for a Duval County teacher, the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled.
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