A mixture of positive and negative changes to state open records laws have slowly been making their way through state legislatures in the past few weeks.
Several state legislatures considering updates to open records laws
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It’s not all doom and gloom: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch could be an ally to student journalists
President Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t really like the news media. Still, there's evidence his Supreme Court nominee supports student speech.
Survey reveals support for First Amendment freedoms at 10-year high, with a few caveats
A new survey commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has found that support for First Amendment freedoms is at a 10-year high among high school students.
A pair of California bills tackle media literacy education
Battling hoaxes and partisan news, legislators in California are the latest to propose curriculum changes in order to educate students about the media they consume daily.
After Wyoming Senate kills student privacy bill, legislative proactivity comes into question
State senators in Wyoming last week voted to indefinitely postpone a bill that would have given students a heightened sense of digital privacy.
In wanting to expel a student responsible for a shooting scare, Philadelphia school district misses an opportunity to foster conversation
School officials in Pennsylvania have suspended, and are seeking to expel, a student for posting a video mash-up with the song "Pumped Up Kicks."
Michigan Supreme Court denies appeal in secret meetings lawsuit
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging the University of Michigan Board of Regents’ ability to hold closed-door “pre-meetings.”
Graduate student attacked by looters during Oakland protest of presidential election
A journalism graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley was attacked while covering election protests in Oakland, last week.
Indiana Supreme Court rules Notre Dame police not subject to open records law
The Indiana Supreme Court this week decided the police department at the University of Notre Dame is not a government body and not subject to open records requests.
Georgia law against insulting public school officials in front of students ruled unconstitutional
Can you be arrested for insulting a school employee? No, says a 7-0 ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court, striking down a state statute that criminalized verbally abusing a school employee in the presence of a student.