The Electronic Frontier Foundation sent a letter to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arguing against banning anonymous social media speech platforms, like Yik Yak.
Most of the testimony was supportive of enacting New Voices legislation in Washington state to protect student journalists at both high schools and colleges from administrative censorship.
The lawsuit claims that the University of Tulsa was negligent when it investigated the student for violating the school's harassment policy and ignored the student's due process rights.
Several colleges across the country have attempted to restrict students' speech to "free speech zones," which have been ripe for lawsuits.
The association has asked students and coaches to refrain from chanting "unsportsmanlike" jeers during school games. A student athlete was suspended for five games for tweeting a criticism of the guidelines.
A federal judge cited Hazelwood in determining that a student's freedom of speech and expression rights were not violated by the school officials' refusal to allow her to wear an eagle feather on her graduation cap.
The bill, which was filed in response to the University of Missouri protests, would require public college students in the state to take a course on the First Amendment.
WASHINGTON — The Washington State Senate Majority Floor Leader’s visit to a high school newspaper in October was more eventful than most classroom visits tend to be. The senator, Joe Fain, talked to each of the journalism students and looked at their articles — and then he talked to their adviser, Thomas Custodio-Kaup, about passing… Continue reading Eight Washington State senators sign on to sponsor student press freedom legislation
The student journalist's column criticizing race-based protests at the University of Missouri led to such intense pushback that he now has a police escort to class.
The Washington State Senate Majority Floor Leader sponsored the bill, which would protect student journalists at public schools and colleges.