Auon’tai Anderson sued for allegedly breaking First Amendment
A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Auon’tai Anderson, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education vice president, claims he infringed upon constituents’ First Amendment rights after he blocked people and deleted comments on his Facebook page.
On July 31, Anderson posted on Facebook about further findings from the firing of the McAuliffe International School principal, Kurt Dennis.
In the since-deleted post, Anderson said there had been a meeting with Dennis and the Northeast Denver Innovation Zone Board of Directors. The meeting was after Dennis did a TV interview about the shooting at East High School.
Anderson asked for the footage to be released and asked for the public to demand it as well.
“But in a democratic society, it is not just the responsibility of those in office to ensure transparency, it is also the duty of the public to demand it,” Anderson wrote.