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From a Daily Bruin interview with Steve Lurie, recently-appointed AVC for campus and community safety:

...DB: USAC has a resolution on its (Feb. 11) agenda to declare its lack of confidence in you and to get them your appointment. Do you have any response to it?

SL: I look forward to working with every Bruin group who will meet with me to discuss their vision for a safe UCLA. As an alum, as a 30-year professional, in my core and in my heart as a Bruin, I want to learn what every group on campus feels about safety at UCLA and their vision moving forward of what we can do to help Bruins be safe.

[NOTE: The resolution was later amended to be a declaration of no confidence in Lurie’s office. However, its condemnation of Lurie’s appointment, as well as a call for the senate to hold a vote of no confidence in Lurie, remained in the version of the resolution that passed.]

DB: UCLA has revised its Time, Place and Manner policies, which were announced in September. They’ve generated some blowback from students. The Academic Senate has expressed concerns about the policies. How will your office go about enforcing these policies?

SL: Time, Place and Manner restrictions are permitted by the Supreme Court.

I’m not intimately familiar with the specifics of UCLA’s yet, but they are in a list of things that I’m reviewing now. On university campuses, we are the breadbasket of the First Amendment. We want to embrace and cherish our role as a place where ideas can be expressed. That’s especially important for a university, and especially important for our nation’s number one public university. But First Amendment protections are not absolute, and there need to be some guardrails and guidelines on how expression happens. That’s what Time, Place and Manner restrictions are meant to do...

Full interview at https://dailybruin.com/2025/02/14/qa-new-associate-vice-chancellor-steve-lurie-talks-campus-safety-transparency.