Parks Department Will Let Its Workers Talk to Press, Changing Course

The Parks Department backed off an order barring employees from talking to news reporters after getting pressure from the New York Civil Liberties Union, internal emails show...Christopher Dunn, the NYCLU's associate legal director, said the directive was "quite misleading." "Directives like this are no good for the simple reason that public employees have a First Amendment right to speak to the press," Dunn said.