School & College Law Section | Annual Meeting and CLE

Date: September 15, 2026, 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Location: State Bar Conference Center

104 Marietta St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30303

Please join us for the School & College Law Section Annual Meeting on September 15, 2026, at the State Bar Headquarters in Atlanta. The meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m.

Lunch will be provided, and attendees will receive CLE credit.

Annual Meeting Agenda

• Section Elections
  • The Section will conduct elections for its leadership positions.

Nominations: Please submit nominations prior to the meeting to Randy Farmer.

Open Positions

• Chair (Sonya Sallis has been nominated.)
• Vice Chair (Jenna Rubin has been nominated.)
• Treasurer (Andrea Jolliffe will serve if no additional nominations are received.)

A vote will be conducted for any position that receives more than one nomination.

Educational Presentations

Update on Open Records and Open Meetings

Presenters:

• Dan Murphy
• Mike Pruett

Best Practices for Constitutionally Balancing Free Speech & Order at School Board Meetings

This presentation will explore the public forum doctrine and its application to public comment periods at school board meetings. The speakers will examine the constitutional requirements of reasonableness and viewpoint neutrality and review common regulatory approaches used by public bodies. The discussion will distinguish permissible time, place, and manner restrictions and germane-topic requirements from restrictions that courts have found to be constitutionally unreasonable or viewpoint based.

Presenters:

• Clare Norins, Clinical Associate Professor and First Amendment Clinic Director, University of Georgia School of Law
• Gerry Weber, Law Offices of Gerry Weber LLC, Atlanta, Georgiahttp://www.constitutional-litigation.com/

Related Article: Who Controls the Podium? A First Amendment Framework for Regulating Citizen Speech at Government Meetings by Clare Norins and Sofie Storan, First Amendment Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

We encourage all Section members to attend, participate in the election process and take advantage of these timely and informative presentations.

Registration will close September 14th at 12 noon.

We look forward to seeing you on September 15.