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The Line: Security for Milo Yiannopoulos Speech Cost $81k

June 2, 2017 – Milo Yiannopoulos brought his controversial college speaking tour to UNM earlier this year and KUNM reported this week that security for the event cost at least eighty-one thousand dollars. This week Gene Grant and our panel of local journalists talk about the challenges of getting information like those final figures from public agencies and what the cost of the event might mean for future debates over free speech on university campuses.

Line Panelists:
Elaine Baumgartel, news director at http://www.kunm.org KUNM
Dan Boyd, capitol bureau chief for the Albuquerque Journal
Andy Lyman, reporter for NM Political Report
Inez Russell Gomez, opinion page editor for the Santa Fe New Mexican