It's worth noting that the policy remains in draft form. One might imagine different provisions for spaces interior to residents' rooms, and those exposed to the public such as the exteriors of doors. I think much would turn on precisely what the policy covers. But, I would think that there's no serious problem with pretty restrictive regulations of things like the walls in common hallways (unless they are conceptualized, somehow, as public fora -- which seems to me would be pretty hard to do given the current Court's unwillingness to expand the scope of the "traditional" public forum from streets and parks). To the extent that the walls of the common areas are used to post official announcements and announcements of public events, again one would need to know the precise contours of the policy to know whether such postings had converted the areas into limited public fora. In short, I find it hard to react to the story without more detail about what policies are actually in place.
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