Minnesota residents now required to state home address if they want to speak at school board meetings

NY Post ^ | 10/28/2021 | Paul Best, Fox News

[ChicagoConservative27]

Residents of Mankato, Minnesota were required to state their home addresses during the public portion of school board meetings this month in order to address officials.

Jodi Sapp, the chair of the board for Mankato Area Public Schools, laid out new rules before the open forum on Oct. 18, including prohibiting residents from addressing individual school board members and requiring that every speaker publicly state the address of their home.

“Before the open forum, I would like to review a couple of things,” Sapp said. “Each speaker is asked to state his or her name and address for the record. Failure to do so will result in an individual not being allowed to speak.”

[cuban leaf]

They are not under oath. Just give a fake one.

[Reno89519]

That might be interesting 'reminder': "Susie, I live about a mile from your home address at 101 N Jones. Mine is 3102 South Bob. Good to see we both live in the same community and district."

Shared intimidation if anyone insists on seeing this as intimidation, which I do not.

[TnTnTn]

Do teachers and school board members state their addresses?

[Reno89519]

I still do not see the intimidation. I would not be attending anonymously, so they and everyone would have or know it. Establishing my standing to speak seems a no brainer. Especially as I also support voter ID.

[dfwgator]

Haha, I know you’ve seen that movie.

[cuban leaf]

My wife had a great idea. Just give one of the school board members’ address.

What are they gonna say? “Hey, that’s MY address!”

[cgbg]

Uranus just got a lot of new residents!

[KarlInOhio]

And if your house is on fire by the time you get home, that will be a lesson to anyone who crosses the school board, the National School Boards Association or their enforcers in the FBI.

And I just found out that the Ohio School Boards Association left the National School Boards Association a couple of days ago.

[markman46]

5555 mockingbird lane

[Army Air Corps]

One of the most quotable movies ever made. :)

[cgbg]

Hey, that’s MY address!

"When I am done suing you for child abuse it will be my address!"

[DannyTN]

Preemptive doxing

[Magnum44]

You might not be intimidated by it, but that is the intent. The information recorded could be used against both you and/or your student children for further intimidation or retribution.

[matt04]

Or use the address of the school board members. Just say you identify as living their.

[markman46]

Why, because the school board says so. Do not need permission to speak at school board, or city council meetings period. Is this done in reno???

[Reno89519]

If anyone goes to a public meeting and speaks publicly, they’d have to be complete morons to think that their identity is somehow secret. What idiocy. And I bet the same people complaining are all for Voter ID. Hypocrites.

[wally_bert]

Of course, they’d never check.

[Boogieman]

“Actually I am not sure what the problem is with this.”

Well, nowadays, this is basically considered “doxxing” yourself... your political enemies will use the information against you for harassment, threats, trying to get you fired from your job, etc.

[Trumplican]

Definitely intimidation tactics.

Fair to expect people to live in the school district, but there are private ways they can verify that.

Time to clean house of the stasi.

[joshua c]

you first