Area Outside Public Library Is A Public Forum.

To regulate leafleting on a municipal library campus, a City Council adopted a Handbill Ordinance restricting leafleting to the front of the library and prohibiting it on vehicles in the parking lot. It also prohibited “offensively coarse” language and gestures and required online reservations to use the “free speech area.” Plaintiffs obtained a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the policy. The appellate court agreed with the trial court that the area outside the library is a public forum, and that, with one exception, agreed the plaintiffs were likely to prevail on their challenges to the Handbill Ordinance. But the appellate court found the injunction was overbroad regarding leafleting in the parking lot. American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California/Prigmore v. City of Redding (Cal. App. Third Dist.; December 13, 2012.) 211 Cal.App.4th 1322.