Miscellaneous
Gilles Bissonnette, legal director for the ACLU-NH, on Saturday sent a letter to Town Administrator Martha Roy, the members of the board of selectmen, the town planner, the building inspector and the police chief, noting that the town had no right to remove the signs and that in doing so it had violated the U.S. and New Hampshire constitutions. “The Town’s removal of the ‘Portsmouth Pride’ signs on private property violated the First Amendment and Part 1, Article 22 of the New Hampshire Constitution,” Bissonnette wrote. “People in New Hampshire have a First Amendment right to place whatever signs they want on their property.”