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FOI Oklahoma holds First Amendment Summit to identify threats to constitutional freedoms and explore solutions
Freedom of Information Oklahoma invited community leaders in the state to discuss threats to First Amendment freedoms at a summit in Oklahoma City. More than 25 journalists, educators, scholars, attorneys and open government advocates attended the event March 25. The nonprofit hopes to use ideas from the summit to identify common goals and form a new coalition of community groups dedicated to protecting the right to free expression in Oklahoma.
Moderator Danielle Ezell separated participants into small-group discussions about threats and actions related to freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment including religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Each group brainstormed local threats and various counterstrategies.