• Metal detectors at Longmont's Skyline High: We opposed a proposed high-tech weapons scan system that was untested and raised many privacy concerns. Our advocacy and information to the school board helped delay the project until the private contractor finally withdrew its offer to install the devices for free.
• Non-Discrimination Regulations in Boulder Valley schools: We successfully advocated a major overhaul of vague and overbroad school district regulations that violated the First Amendment. The revised regulations endorse "robust discussion" and focus on regulating truly harmful behavior rather than being a vague and unconstitutional ban on offensive speech. We got involved after the Chapter was asked to aid a Boulder elementary school student whose BarbieTM doll science project became national news. The project was pulled from the science fair by school officials, who said it was "racially insensitive and could cause offense."
• Boulder Public Library Art Theft: After a Boulder man boastfully removed artwork-ceramic penises he said were "offensive" and "unpatriotic" from the library public exhibition space, we publicly urged that he be prosecuted. We worked to preserve the First Amendment free expression rights of the library, artists and the public to be free from content-based censorship.
• CU Student Union Elections: We successfully opposed the disqualification of one of the two slates of candidates for a University-wide election. They were charged with technical violations of vague and overbroad campaign spending limit rules after a one-time endorsement was made at a University concert by an unrelated third party. We raised First Amendment and due process objections.
• Boulder Housing Occupancy Limits: We have actively supported changes in the City's housing ordinance to treat registered domestic partners the same as married couples for purposes of occupancy limits.
• No Special Rights for the Boy Scouts: We have actively urged the Boulder Valley School District to stop giving preferential rental rates to the Boy Scouts because the Scouts' exclusion of gays from membership violates the District's non-discrimination policy.
• Arrests for Non-Jailable Offenses: We have asked the City of Boulder to enact an ordinance to protect people from arrest for minor traffic offenses for which they would not ordinarily be jailed. Such arrests were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last year in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista.

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