{"id":45790,"date":"2026-04-27T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:47:08","slug":"mamdani-vetoes-bill-requiring-security-plans-for-protests-near-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45790\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Vetoes Bill Requiring Security Plans for Protests Near Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bill would\u2019ve required police to make and publicize security plans related to protests near educational facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Platt\/Getty Images News\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n<p>New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoed a measure that he said could be improperly applied to \u201ccollege students demanding their school divest from fossil fuels or demonstrating in support of Palestinian rights,\u201d The New York Times <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/24\/nyregion\/mamdani-buffer-zones-veto.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the vetoed City Council bill, the New York Police Department would have to create plans for how to \u201ccontain the risk of physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation, and interference at educational facilities while preserving and protecting the rights to free speech, assembly, and protest.\u201d That could include establishing security perimeters to protect entry to and from educational facilities. Whatever plan the department creates would then have to be posted publicly.<\/p>\n<p>The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University applauded the veto in a statement, noting that it had previously warned the bill could chill lawful protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the Mayor\u2019s veto of legislation that would have charged the NYPD with setting the rules around lawful political protest near thousands of schools and educational facilities across the city,\u201d said Xiangnong Wang, staff attorney at the institute. \u201cGovernments shouldn\u2019t entrust law enforcement with determining the limits of political expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who supported the legislation, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2026\/04\/24\/3110\/\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a> that \u201censuring students can enter and exit their schools without fear of harassment or intimidation should not be controversial.\u201d The Times reported that she\u2019s considering whipping the votes to override the mayor\u2019s veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bill would\u2019ve required police to make and publicize security plans related to protests near educational facilities. Spencer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[148],"tags":[1847,1846,1786,1845,836,50,553],"class_list":["post-45790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zohran-mamdani","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}