Alliance Defending Freedom
Local Alert
📅 Sunday, November 15, 2026 to Calendar
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We reviewed the upcoming agenda for Wauconda CUSD 118 and identified 1 items with potential legal exposure ahead of the vote.
LOW (LEVEL 2)
Public Comment Rules on Individual-Specific Speech
📅 November 15, 2026
The board’s public comment rules, stated under item 2, require members of the public who wish to address the board on matters ‘pertaining to a specific student or employee’ to do so in executive session rather than the open meeting. This constitutes a content-based restriction on speech in a limited public forum.
Intake Action

Monitor only; no action required. The rule channeling comments on specific individuals to closed session is a common content-based restriction often justified by privacy interests and is unlikely to be actionable without evidence of viewpoint-discriminatory application.

⚖️ Legal Hook: First Amendment – Public Forum Doctrine
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