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A public high school in upstate New York has agreed to allow a senior to adorn her personal parking space with Bible verses after receiving a demand letter alleging a violation of the student's First Amendment rights.

Attorneys for Sabrina Steffans, a Christian senior at Grand Island Senior High School near Buffalo, fired off an 11-page letter to the school's leadership last week threatening legal action after administrators allegedly denied designs for her personal senior parking space because of their explicitly Christian content.

The demand letter explained that students pay a $50 fee and use their own supplies to create designs for their designated parking spaces, which must be approved by school staff.

Grand Island Central School District Superintendent Brian Graham

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