A petition to the nation’s highest court followed a February 2014 ruling from three judges on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in California, who found Live Oak High School officials did not violate the First Amendment when they ordered students to remove American flag T-shirts during a Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2010.
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Illinois AG: FERPA does not excuse colleges from turning over email directories
An Illinois college refused a reporter's open-records request for the campus email directory. But the state Attorney General says the directory is a public record. Since the FERPA student privacy law doesn't forbid turning it over, state law requires disclosing it.
March 2015 Podcast: How the FAA’s proposed drone regulations could affect journalism
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Jameson Rice, an attorney with Holland & Rice in Washington, D.C., discusses the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed rules for commercial drone use and how these regulations could affect the future of newsgathering.Frank LoMonte: Hi everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Student Press Law Center’s podcast, a monthly rundown of legal developments affecting people… Continue reading March 2015 Podcast: How the FAA’s proposed drone regulations could affect journalism
March 2015 Podcast: How the FAA's proposed drone regulations could affect journalism
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Jameson Rice, an attorney with Holland & Rice in Washington, D.C., discusses the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed rules for commercial drone use and how these regulations could affect the future of newsgathering.Frank LoMonte: Hi everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Student Press Law Center’s podcast, a monthly rundown of legal developments affecting people… Continue reading March 2015 Podcast: How the FAA's proposed drone regulations could affect journalism
Private Tenn. athletic association seeks public records exemption
A bill that would have reversed the effects of a court ruling affording the public access to the records of the nonprofit Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is likely to be narrowed to exclude only confidential student records from public scrutiny.
‘Anti-Hazelwood’ legislation receives unanimous support in N.D. Senate
State Senators in North Dakota gave unanimous support to legislation Thursday that would enhance students’ freedom of expression in school-sponsored media.
How much free-speech protection does a college applicant have? This federal court says: Zero.
A student was denied admission to a Maryland community college's program in part because of a remark he made about being religious. Now, a U.S. district judge says the student has no free-speech case, and that colleges have unlimited leeway to reject applicants for "personal" remarks they make during admissions interviews.
Athletic director’ resignation prompts censorship of Calif. high school newspaper, adviser says
The students' reporting on the athletic director's resignation appeared in print about a month after Francis Polytechnic Senior High Principal Ari Bennett discouraged students write the story, adviser Ethel Matlen said.
Va. high school censors story about marijuana ‘dabbing’
Administrators at a Virginia high school told a student reporter she couldn’t print a story about students smoking concentrated marijuana because writing about the “drug craze” would expose children to “a new and dangerous drug.” But the story didn’t go away.
Under the dome: As professional news outlets vacate state capitols because of budget constraints, student journalists move in to fill the gap
In four states, student journalists outnumber journalists from professional outlets assigned to the statehouse full-time, where they ensure citizens have access to information about how the state spends their tax dollars and decisions on education, criminal justice and safety regulations.