Government Agency May Not Restrict Religious Messages On Employee Bulletin Boards

In Lister v. Defense Logistics Agency, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23804 (SD OH, March 30, 2007), an Ohio federal district court struck down as unconstitutional a bulletin board policy of the Defense Logistics Agency that prohibited items reflecting a religious preference from being posted on Notice Bulletin Boards in the workplace. It held that "once the government creates a board open for posting by employees of virtually any noncommercial message, it may not exclude those messages of a religious nature."