Between refining a policy that prevented student media from contacting administrators and passing a policy that inserted the protection of free speech into the college’s faculty handbook, students and school officials at Ohio University have taken steps to challenge First Amendment restrictions on campus.
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It's a jungle out there
Georgia Dunn was not surprised when she learned that Ohio school districtsperformed poorly in an Ohio Coalition for Open Government study gaugingcompliance of the state’s open-records law.
The audit’sresults, released in June, showed school districts released records the same dayor the next less than 30 percent of the time -- the lowest rate of any typeof public body included in the statewide audit.
Dunn, Ohio JournalismEducation Association state director, said compliance with open-records laws hasnot been a high priority for schools.
School board pays $35,000 to settle Wooster Blade censorship lawsuit
In February, a U.S. district court judge denied the student journalists’ request to prohibit the school district from conducting further prior review of the Wooster Blade. However, the judge did recognize that the student newspaper had greater protection than provided by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hazelwood ruling because the school had opened the publication as a public forum for student expression.
Ohio high court rules that principals are not public officials
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on May 15 that publicschool principals are neither "public officials" nor"public figures" for the purposes of defamation law. The case began with the March 1995 firing of John McIntosh fromhis position as principal of East Canton High School.
'Joke horoscope' leads to student's suspension
The Noronia Hills High School junior's attorney, Kenneth D.Myers, told the Akron Beacon Journal that school officials overreacted because of the shootingat Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., which took placethe week before the column was published.
Now the wait: 6th Circuit judges hear Kentucky State Univ. censorship case
New battle lines were drawn in the war over whether college administrators can legally silence certain forms of student expression in a small courtoom in Cincinnati Thursday.
U.S. Court of Appeals to hear college press censorship case on Thursday
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati will hear arguments tomorrow in a case that seriously threatens the First Amendment protections available to public college students and faculty.
Ohio College Student Newspaper Shut Down by Publications Board
Citing a "continuous decline in the quality of the content," the mostly student-led publications board at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, suspended publication in late January of the school's student newspaper, the Exponent, according to a report in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Toledo judge finds university in violation of open meetings law
A trial court judge sided with a University of Toledo student and the local newspaper in his May decision to open the school's athletic director search committee meetings to the public.