A Student Press Law Center-led coalition filed an amicus brief in a federal lawsuit today to highlight the widespread chilling effect on student voices caused by recent immigration enforcement actions.
Lawrence High School officials are illegally censoring student journalists and intimidating their adviser in the wake of a recent lawsuit, according to a new court motion.
One big question about New Voices laws often comes up: How can a state law or local school policy “override” a U.S. Supreme Court decision like Hazelwood? Senior legal counsel Mike Hiestand provides the answer.
For Sunshine Week, Erasmus Baxter, Asia Fields and Julia Furukawa share their story of reporting on university misconduct cases at Western Washington University.
More than seven months after student journalist Dilan Gohill was arrested while covering a campus protest, Stanford University President Jonathan Levin confirmed to the Student Press Law Center and the First Amendment Coalition on Monday that Gohill will not face campus disciplinary action. Levin, however, declined to rescind the university’s previous endorsement of criminal prosecution of Gohill in response to SPLC and FAC’s calls for him to do so.
The Student Press Law Center and the First Amendment Coalition today wrote to Stanford University President Jonathan D. Levin to request he take specific steps to address the university’s mishandling of the June 5 arrest of a student journalist covering a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus.
The Student Press Law Center and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a letter today to the University of Texas at Dallas expressing concern over the university’s interference in The Mercury, which has left the future of the student-run newspaper in doubt.
The challenges of last year will likely continue this school year, but SPLC is here to help. Staff attorney Jonathan Gaston-Falk shares this open letter to advisers to acknowledge and offer support for the particularly difficult moment they face.
Four important recommendations for student journalists based on what we learned from the Spring 2024 campus protests.
Charges against two Dartmouth College student journalists were dropped Tuesday just hours after a coalition of 15 national journalism and First Amendment organizations, including SPLC, sent a letter denouncing the students' arrests.
