Prohibited Expression

Antisemitism

No person or organization at, or affiliated with, Tarrant County College and all related facilities will demonstrate antisemitic behavior, expressions, or participate in certain perceptions of people of Jewish descent that may be expressed as hatred toward Jewish people and their descendants. The term includes rhetorical and physical acts of antisemitism directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property or toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. The term and related actions are defined and outlined in GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 448. TEXAS HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE, AND ANTISEMITISM ADVISORY COMMISSION. Additionally, examples of antisemitism are included in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "Working Definition of Antisemitism" adopted on May 26, 2016.

Violation of this policy will result in disciplinary action that may result in expulsion.

Obscenity

No person or organization will distribute or display on the campus any writing or visual image, or engage in any public performance, that is obscene. A writing, image or performance is "obscene" if it is obscene as defined in Texas Penal Code, Section 21.08, or successor provisions, and is within the constitutional definition of obscenity as set forth in decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

Defamation

No person or organization will make, distribute or display on campus any statement that unlawfully defames any other person.
A statement unlawfully defames another person if it is false, if the false portion of the statement injures the reputation of the other person, and if the speaker has the constitutionally required state of mind as set forth in decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

Incitement to Imminent Violations of Law

No person or organization will make, distribute or display on campus any statements directed to inciting or producing imminent violations of law under circumstances such that the statements are likely to actually and imminently incite or produce violations of law.

Solicitation

No person or organization will make, distribute or display on campus any statement that offers or advertises any product or service for sale or lease that includes commercial identifiers, such as for-profit logos, trademarks and service marks, or that requests any gift or contribution, except as authorized by the Tarrant County College Board Policy Manual.
Words or symbols on personal apparel, or on decals or bumper stickers affixed to a vehicle by an owner of that vehicle, are not solicitation within this definition.
Unadorned acknowledgments or thanks to donors are not solicitation within this definition.
Students may not solicit funds, sell merchandise, or distribute material or information on- or off-campus in the name of the College, without approval of the College administration. Students or student organizations wishing to raise funds or distribute materials must have the approval of the Director of Student Affairs and/or the Vice President for Student Affairs. Once approved, a Registered Student Organization or Faculty/Staff Organization may advertise or sell merchandise, publications, food or nonalcoholic beverages, or request contributions for the benefit of the organization, for the benefit of another Registered Student Organization or Faculty/Staff Organization, or for the benefit of an organization that is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. No organization may sell items obtained on consignment. As required by FI(LOCAL), no organization shall solicit for more than a total of 14 days, whether continuous or intermittent, during each fiscal year. Registered Student Organizations or Faculty/Staff Organizations, and Academic and Administrative Units; may sell, distribute, or display literature that contains advertising subject to the Limits on Advertising set forth in this section. Individual students or faculty/staff members may distribute or display such literature, but may not sell it.
Individual students or faculty/staff members may post advertisements for roommates, subleases, and sales of used goods that the seller has personally owned and used; but only on a bulletin board designated for that purpose by an academic or administrative unit in a space that the unit occupies or controls. Any unit that designates a bulletin board for this purpose may regulate that bulletin board under the procedures set forth in Signs and Other Designated Locations section.
A Registered Student Organization or Faculty/Staff Organization may sell charitable raffle tickets on behalf of an organization that is authorized to conduct a charitable raffle under the Texas Charitable Raffle Enabling Act, Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 2002, or successor provisions

Speech, Expression, Assembly

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