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Guide to Illinois’s Speech Rights of Student Journalists Act and College Campus Press Act

Two Illinois laws, signed in 2016 and 2008, protect the press freedom of Illinois’s public school student journalists and public higher education student journalists and college media advisers. The law says that student journalists cannot be censored by school officials, except in certain very narrow circumstances, and that college media advisers cannot be penalized for… Continue reading Guide to Illinois’s Speech Rights of Student Journalists Act and College Campus Press Act

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A Guide to Rhode Island’s Student Journalists’ Freedom of Expression Act

Signed by Gov. Gina Raimondo in 2017, the law protects the press freedom of Rhode Island’s public and private high school, college and university student journalists and their advisers. The law says that student media cannot be censored except in certain very narrow circumstances, and that advisers cannot be penalized for refusing to infringe on… Continue reading A Guide to Rhode Island’s Student Journalists’ Freedom of Expression Act