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Brevard Public Schools is expected to pay nearly $568,000 to settle a lawsuit with Moms for Liberty.
The legal dispute originated from a 2021 public comments policy that Moms for Liberty claimed violated their First Amendment rights.
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order in January, halting the school board's public comment policy at the time.
At an Oct. 7 meeting, Brevard's school board was expected to approve a over a previous public comments policy.
The draft settlement agreement, on the consent portion of the agenda for the Oct. 7 school board meeting, says Brevard Public Schools owes $567,990.19 to the Institute for Free Speech and David Osborne at Goldstein Law Partners, LLC, both representatives of Moms for Liberty.
The draft agreement was dr