{"data":{"id":"us-la/rs-17-3399.39","jurisdiction":"us-la","citation":"RS 17:3399.39","heading":"Right to individual dignity; each student's right to be free from discrimination on the basis of political ideas, affiliations, or ideology","body":"A. Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of Louisiana guarantees that each person, including a college or university student, has the right to \"individual dignity\" and further provides that protections are guaranteed against discrimination based upon the student's \"political ideas or affiliations\".\nB. A public postsecondary education management board shall make reasonable efforts to protect students from discrimination on the basis of political ideas, affiliations, or ideology.\nC. No professor or instructor who teaches a class to students at an institution of higher education shall impose the professor's or instructor's political views onto students and, therefore, shall be prohibited from doing any of the following:\n(1) Requiring a student to attend a political protest or engage in any other political activity outside of the classroom that aligns with the political views of the professor or instructor.\n(2) Requiring a student to participate in a certain political activity outside of the classroom as a condition of obtaining the letter grade to which the student would otherwise be entitled based upon the student's actual academic performance in the class.","path":["3046.5 Terminated July 9, 1998. See Acts 1992, No. 938, §1, and Acts 1995, No. 1296, §1."],"source_url":"https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1389109","current_through":"2025 First Extraordinary Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:53:29Z","sha256":"7e7e7b385aa23278e5d94f4a560f2bd86ea3648f76ce98c252e5df87e052190d","source_id":"us-la","stale":false,"prev":"us-la/rs-17-3399.38","next":"us-la/rs-17-3399.40"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}