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Five school board members in N.M. face criminal charges in open-meetings case
NEW MEXICO -- In what may be an unprecedented action, the state attorney general in January filed criminal charges against two current and three former school board members for alleged open-meetings violations.
The five officials face four criminal counts each for allegedly approving $390,000 in employment incentives for then-Superintendent Jesse L.
Mont. higher education commissioner faces open-meetings suit
MONTANA -- Alleged violations of open-meetings laws by state university officials led 14 news and media organizations to sue the state commissioner of higher education last month.
The complaint filed by the media on Feb.
Thieves strike three more campuses; five student papers stolen in one week
Articles about elections, a drug bust and an impending trial are just a few examples of what fueled three of the five student newspaper thefts around the country last week.
American University's student newspaper, The Eagle, found 25 percent of its total circulation missing after announcing its student council endorsements in its Feb.
Supreme Court justice’s remarks about student rights not so funny — but oh, so telling
And finally, here's a sober reminder of today's legal climate for student rights.
‘Law of the Student Press’ book now available online to SPLC members
The SPLC is pleased to introduce an important new benefit for SPLC members.
Effective immediately, SPLC members can now download PDF files of our book, "Law of the Student Press," Second Edition (1994), the most comprehensive resource on student media law available.
At 269 pages, the book contains information on high school and college press freedom issues as well as chapters on defamation, copyright, adviser rights, obscenity, freedom of information law and many other legal topics of interest to the student press community.
There is no charge to download the material, although you must have an SPLC member username and password.
The current member username is: Member\nThe current member password is: splcorg
The SPLC staff is currently writing a new third edition of "Law of the Student Press." We expect it to be published in late 2002.
Ill. appeals judge rules against newspaper in libel suit stemming from use of high school yearbook photo
An Illinois appeals court recently granted a new trial to a plaintiff whose defamation lawsuit against a newspaper was thrown out by a lower court.
The Illinois Appellate Court for the First District ruled on Jan.
Mich. college officials call for changes after column critical of Islam infuriates students
The appearance of a provocative article about religion in the student newspaper at Wayne State University late last month has provoked calls of insensitivity.
The Feb.
ACLU unsettled about student privacy concerns despite change in Nev. solicitation policy
The Nevada public college system voted in early March to amend its policy regarding the release of student directory information to both commercial and non-commercial solicitors, providing students with a more obvious choice to "opt out" of such solicitations.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which threatened in January to sue the University and Community College System of Nevada for alleged violations of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act with its old policy, was unimpressed by the change.
Colo. legislation would require all public schools to install Internet filters
Colorado took its first step toward adopting an Internet filtering bill for schools when the Children's Internet Protection Act was introduced on March 12.
House Bill 1266 calls for the implementation of a "technology protection measure" for each school computer that allows minors to access the Internet.