I told you a while back about what was happening to Dennis Lennox up at Central Michigan University. You can read that post here. You’ll recall that faculty were discussing him on their listserve because he had, in their words, “noxious political and social beliefs” and, obviously, mental health issues (don’t all conservatives?!).

From my post:

A few weeks ago, Dennis filed an FOIA request for the professor’s emails. Not only did the Dean of Humanities, Pamela Gates, refuse to acknowledge the FOIA request (a legal violation), but she tried to knock Dennis’s video camera out of his hands when he confronted her.

The university has also ordered Dennis to stop filming professor Gary Peters, who is running for Congress. The CMU ban on videotaping professors at public universities in public settings was not imposed until Dennis took action.

Right Michigan reports that the ACLU has gotten involved on Dennis’s behalf.

CMU’s targetted ban (it didn’t exist before Gary Peters and Dennis Lennox) is a direct attempt to scuttle his First Amendment rights and, in fact, the rights of every Michigan taxpayer. Props to the ACLU for getting this one right.

This is a major win for Lennox who’s been the target of some pretty despicable personal attacks both on and off campus because of his politics. But it’s a bigger win for the Constitution.

Go Dennis Go!

Here is the ACLU release.