Yearlong banishment from a public meeting isn't 'reasonable'
"Given the highly emotional topics school boards have been dealing with, prohibiting a parent from attending meetings for a year seems extreme."
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"Given the highly emotional topics school boards have been dealing with, prohibiting a parent from attending meetings for a year seems extreme."
Randy Evans argues that it was extreme for the Linn-Mar school district to ban Amanda Snyder from attending meetings for a year.
In a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit over the Cedar Rapids ordinance requiring five of the nine-member Citizens Review Board identify as people of color, a judge asked whether the policy reflected a bias that white people could not identify trends rooted in bias.
“Reasonable” is a word that is used often in Iowa’s laws. Reasonable fees. Reasonable rules. Reasonable efforts. Reasonable force. But events in recent weeks show government officials are not always following what many Iowans would think the term means. And when government officials deviate from