{"id":209864,"date":"2026-02-04T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:20:09","slug":"school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"School board member sues Rochester Schools over privacy policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/michigan-news\/2026-02-04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy\">School board member sues Rochester Schools over privacy policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/michigan-news\/2026-02-04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy\">https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/michigan-news\/2026-02-04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 06:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wemu.org\">www.wemu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Rochester Community Schools board member is alleging the district violated her free speech rights in a new lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit comes after Rochester Community Schools trustee Carol Beth Litkouhi was censured for writing an op-ed against a millage the district hadn\u2019t yet formally announced.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The resolution accused her of breaking a bylaw meant to protect confidential information.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>But Litkouhi\u2019s attorneys argue the bylaw unconstitutionally limits free speech. Mackinac Center Legal Foundation lawyer Derk Wilcox says he\u2019s worried the rule sets a precedent.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cThere&#8217;s a chance that other public government entities will do the same thing and say, if you speak openly and honestly with your constituents about something that the majority doesn&#8217;t support, we&#8217;re going to censure you. The whole point of the censure was to intimidate her to keep people from doing this in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>The bylaw is part of a ban on \u201cprivate action that might compromise the Board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Non-commercial, fact based reporting is made possible by your financial support.\u00a0\u00a0Make your donation to WEMU today\u00a0to keep your community NPR station thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Like 89.1\u00a0WEMU\u00a0on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0X (Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>Contact WEMU News at\u00a0734.487.3363\u00a0or email us at\u00a0studio@wemu.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/michigan-news\/2026-02-04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School board member sues Rochester Schools over privacy policy https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/michigan-news\/2026-02-04\/school-board-member-sues-rochester-schools-over-privacy-policy Publish Date: 2026-02-04 06:15:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/262a985\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1228x645+0+167\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2Ff9%2F74a80d8945e0abd5f82d4cb816a3%2Ffree-speech.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209866,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209864\/revisions\/209866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}