As long as academia remains in control of progressives, this will be an issue.

Campus Reform reported.

33 schools ignore Congressional request to change restrictive speech codes

Thirty-three public colleges have elected to ignore a deadline to respond to the House Judiciary Committee’s request to adopt new speech codes on campus.

Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, asked 160 schools to change at least one of their existing policies after a Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) report showed that these schools substantially restricted their students’ free speech rights.

In the August report, (FIRE) found that 55 percent of 437 public institutions were worthy of FIRE’s “red light” label for having “at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.”

To qualify for the “red light” label, a policy must be both “clear,” meaning the policy on its face is a threat to free speech and “does not depend on how it is applied,” and “substantial,” meaning it broadly restricts a specific form of speech on campus.

Only 18 schools of the 437 that were surveyed received a “green light” label, meaning the school’s written policies do not pose a serious threat to free speech.

FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff testified at a June House Judiciary Committee hearing where he presented FIRE’s survey. Lukianoff noted that despite numerous court rulings striking down restrictive speech codes, “the majority of American colleges and universities maintain speech codes.”

“Speech codes – policies prohibiting student and faculty speech that would, outside the bounds of campus, be protected by the First Amendment – have repeatedly been struck down by federal and state courts,” Lukianoff told the committee. “Yet they persist, even in the very jurisdictions where they have been ruled unconstitutional.”