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Hillview Police Department Print E-mail
Friday, April 10, 2009, 3:49 pm
Hillview Police Department
Resolved without litigation

    The City of Hillview Mayor submitted a memo to city employees in 2005 along with donated bumper stickers entitled "Keep the Ten Commandments."  The memo "requested" that city employees place the donated bumper stickers on all city-owned vehicles.  As a result, marked police cruisers were adorned with these bumper stickers (which also direct the reader to a pair of websites that extol the virtues of the Ten Commandments as a religious symbol and emphasize the need to publicly display them as a means of support for the Christian faith).  After receiving a complaint from a dedicated ACLU member, we submitted a demand letter to the Chief of the Hillview Police Department requesting that all such bumper stickers be removed from the department’s vehicles.  On February 7, 2008, Chief Ray Wilburn agreed to our request and issued a directive requiring the removal of all such bumper stickers.

 
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