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Author: Taylor Moak

Overcoming policies that get between you and your sources

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June 1, 2013September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

College journalists are learning how to navigate — and when to challenge — administrative policies designed to show sources and the institutions they represent in the best light.

Tagged reports, Spring 2013

Student journalists at one Kentucky high school put a new twist on an old practice to avoid their school's content restrictions

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September 4, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

The threat of censorship creates a choice for student journalists: compromise or publish elsewhere. This spring, several journalism students at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, Ky., chose the latter.

Tagged duPont Manual High School, Fall 2012, Kentucky, reports, The Red Pen

When advisers say 'no': Palmer High School students fight to run yearbook pages

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September 4, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

In rare situations, students facing censorship aren’t just battling the usual suspects – school administrators – but rather with the person charged with providing advice.

Tagged Fall 2012, reports

Cutting Edge: Middle school yearbooks push boundaries

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September 4, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

Where expression is encouraged, middle school students can produce journalism that rivals that done in high schools.

Tagged Fall 2012, reports

Seattle landlord failed to prove high school paper libeled him, appeals court rules

News
July 30, 2012December 4, 2018 Taylor Moak

A Seattle landlord did not prove the Roosevelt High School student newspaper defamed him, a state appeals court ruled Monday.

Tagged defamation, Roosevelt High School, Seattle School District, The Roosevelt Times, Washington

Florida appeals court: College must release name of student who complained about professor

News
July 20, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

An email from a student to a department chair complaining about a professor is not a confidential education record, a Florida appeals court ruled Thursday.

Tagged Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Florida, Santa Fe College

Florida judge: FERPA does not apply to admission records held by prosecutor

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July 18, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

Educational records in the possession of prosecutors during a criminal investigation are not confidential and can be released to the public, a Florida judge has ruled.The ruling, by Judge Marc L.

Tagged FERPA, FOI

N.J. high court rules university legal clinics exempt from public records law

News
July 9, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

Records related to the cases of legal clinics at public law schools are not subject to New Jersey’s public records law, under a new state Supreme Court ruling.

Tagged access to public records, New Jersey, Rutgers University

Chicago university replaces, locks out staff of student radio station

News
July 6, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

The disc jockeys at Northeastern Illinois University’s student radio station have been locked out of the station and replaced.

Tagged college radio, Illinois, Northeastern Illinois University, WZRD

N.Y. legislature passes cyberbullying bill

News
June 19, 2012September 5, 2018 Taylor Moak

Acyberbullying bill that could give schools new authority over students’off-campus Internet posts is on its way to Gov.

Tagged cyberbullying, New York

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