Free Speech Covers Yelling At Parking Enforcement

A Michigan court has ruled that shouting at parking administration is theoretically free speech. Ergo, alerting that guy giving a ticket is constitutionally guarded.

Getting the right to yell

The Michigan State University authorities made a rule that said it is illegal to do anything to disrupt a university employee just doing university business, such as giving parking tickets to anyone who deserved them, according to AutoBlog. It is known as rude normally, but it is not a law.

In 2008, Jared Rapp found a parking enforcement officer placing a ticket on his car and let him know that he was not amused. The officer retreated to his automobile, called campus law enforcement, and Rapp was arrested and found guilty of interfering with a university employee. However, the Michigan Supreme Court has just ruled on Rapp's appeal, and, according to the Detroit News, tossed his conviction. The court held that Rapp's actions were protected as speech.

Get free speech

Dependent upon the circumstance, most courts have determined that annoying outbursts about automobiles are considered free speech. That means the annoying things are protected by the constitution.

You can honk your horn at anybody you would like due to the constitutional rights enforced by the Washington State Supreme Court in 2011 when they threw out a conviction calling it free speech. In 2006, Helen Immelt was arrested for honking her horn at her neighbor. Her neighbor then told the homeowners association that Helen had chickens in her back yard. She got off really simple when it was decided that she was just using free speech.

However, that same year, according to CBS Milwaukee, a male who honked his horn driving by the home of Wisconsin governor Walker during his morning drive to work out of protest was fined by a state trooper. Azael Brodhead, though, was found to be engaging in non-protected behavior and in September 2011, was ordered to pay his fines.

Expect warnings to be free speech too

Unless you need to sit in court and try to convince a judge of free speech rights, you need to keep away from flashing lights at drivers to warn them of cops ahead. It is a common practice, but the lawfulness of it is determined in each states. Most states do not have laws yet. It is legal in Florida though after a judge decided that police cannot ticket motorists for doing it since it is known as free speech.