A student photojournalist at Tufts University was arrested Tuesday and charged with disturbing the peace while he was on assignment at a Boston rally where students protested a grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
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Amid academic scandal, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student paper joins suit for employee disciplinary records
The news organizations’ lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, aims to declare disciplinary and current personnel records are public and compel the university to open the records for examination.
Campus insecurity: An examination of crime and punishment on U.S. college campuses
The stories are part of an ongoing series — in collaboration with The Columbus Dispatch — to examine crime and punishment on college campuses across the country.
SPLC urges Eighth Circuit to protect students' off-campus speech on social media
In a brief filed Monday, a coalition of free-speech groups led by the Student Press Law Center asks a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling that upheld a Minnesota college’s decision to expel a nursing student for “unprofessional” comments posted off-campus to his personal Facebook page.
'Publicly funded,' not publicly accountable
Delaware and Pennsylvania are the only states with open records exemptions for “publicly funded” or “state-related” universities — institutions that receive taxpayer dollars but receive a majority of their funding from private donors. The laws permit UD, Delaware State and four other institutions — University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, Temple University and Lincoln University — to limit what information the public has access to.
FOIA improvement bill, approved in Senate committee, could benefit student journalists
A bill intended to amend the Freedom of Information Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously on Thursday and will now move to the Senate.
November 2014 podcast: Students uncover risks of being undercover drug informants
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Eric Bosco and Steve Fox of the University of Massachusetts Amherst discuss a class project investigating police officers' use of college students as undercover drug informants, which sometimes ends with tragic consequences.Frank LoMonte: Hi everyone and welcome to another installment of the Student Press Law Center’s monthly podcast. I’m Frank LoMonte, executive director of the… Continue reading November 2014 podcast: Students uncover risks of being undercover drug informants
Framingham State U. police question students about comments, news story about ‘domestic violence’ Halloween costume
A Framingham State University student plans to file a Title IX complaint against campus police after officers “threatened” her during an investigation into cyberbullying allegations.
Closed student senate meeting violates Colo. Sunshine Law, student newspaper argues
he student newspaper and student government at Colorado State University have come to different conclusions on whether the student government is a public body subject to open meetings laws following a closed, executive session regarding the impeachment of a student senator.
Protections inconsistent for student journalists who withhold names of sources
Most journalists avoid using anonymous sources, with many schools discouraging it in nearly all situations. But student journalists often find that the only way to attack controversial or sensitive — but significant — issues in schools, is to turn to anonymous sources.