Six weeks after three students filed alawsuit against administrators atOcean County College for attempting to censor the student newspaper, theiradviser has filed a similar lawsuitagainst the school for removing her from her position at the paper, which shehas held for the past 35 years.
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Students sue administrators alleging censorship; ask for adviser's reinstatement
Three student journalists filed a lawsuit against Ocean County College andseveral administrators Wednesday claiming their First Amendment rights tofreedom of speech and the press have been violated.
Students win fight to air banned broadcasts
The first time this year that administrators censored Columbia HighSchool's student-produced cable channel, they nixed public serviceannouncements in February that portrayed the school as dilapidated anddirty.
Students increasingly punished for Internet postings
In what some student free-expression advocates say is an alarming trend, students at both public and private schools are being punished for Internet postings made off school grounds on Web sites not affiliated with the schools.
Off-campus Web sites endure censorship
When such sites are created and viewed off-campus or are used for fair comment and criticism, public school officials typically have no real legal ability to censor content or punish students.
N.J. student sues school district that punished him for off-campus Web site
The Web site contained one allegedly anti-Semitic posting and one vague threat: “We’ll get [Maple Place School] on the last day of school.” The anonymous author of that post later stated that it was a joke.