Feds back away from new campus speech restrictions

Federal officials are easing up on the implementation of a speech code for college campuses, now saying that the policy only applies to the University of Montana, for which it was originally developed.

“[I]n a letter sent last week to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the new head of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Catherine Lhamon, said that ‘the agreement in the Montana case represents the resolution of that particular case and not OCR or [Justice Department] policy,'” FIRE announced Friday.