In response to the State Board of Education voting in favor of enhancing the downgrade recommendation of accreditation for Tulsa Public Schools to ‘accredited with warning’ due to an accusation of violating Oklahoma’s classroom censorship law, HB1775, the ACLU of OK issued the following statement.

Today, a group of local advocates and organizers filed multiple challenges to Oklahoma laws and practices that chill free speech and criminalize the right to protest.