UCLA sued over activist records

(The Center Square) - University of California, Los Angeles is being sued over what plaintiffs call a "radical," anti-Israel activist. The lawsuit was brought by the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, which claims UCLA is hiding records from the public about what “radicals” have been teaching on campus during UCLA’s taxpayer-funded Activist-in-Residence program. Goldwater said these “activists” have a right to their radical ideas, including the self-proclaimed revolutionary journalist Lisa Gray-Garcia, who called homelessness a “white man’s scam” and accused Israel of genocide. Still, Goldwater attorneys said the university is not entitled to hide records about what radicals are teaching or how much they’re being paid. “Public universities don't get to operate in secret,” Goldwater attorney Stacy Skankey told The Center Square. “They're taxpayer-funded, and so if the taxpayers are funding any particular program, the public has a right to