Hyland

ORDER GRANTING INJUNC-TIVE RELIEF

This is a civil rights complaint for injunctive relief. Plaintiff is a California State parolee who is required, as a condition of his parole, to obtain permission from his parole officer before giving any public speech. This condition was invoked to deny plaintiff permission to speak on at least two occasions in January, 1970. The first denial was of a request to address a rally on the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California on January 22, 1970. Plaintiff’s parole officer, Mr. Fred Steinberg, withdrew an earlier authorization, evidently upon the request of officials of the State Correctional Facility at Soledad, California. Plaintiff had intended to address the student rally on conditions at Sole-dad, and fears of student sponsored demonstrations outside the prison itself evidently motivated Steinberg’s decision to revoke permission. Another request to address a group at Santa Cruz was denied on January 27, with the written explanation that “future requests to speak at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be denied so long as the situation at Correctional Training Facility remains unstable.”

On plaintiff’s motion, this Court…