Tag: Spring 1997

A state district court judge has decided that the public has a right to see the business records of the student newspaper at Iowa State University.

In recent years, the Student Press Law Center has heard from hundreds of student publications that have had problems with newspaper theft.

The Montgomery County School Board overruled the school superintendent in April and said school officials should not have pulled the plug on a student-run television program.

In the wake of a controversy over the allegedly improper distribution of college scholarships to Illinois legislators' political friends, lawmakers and judges are disagreeing over how the state open records law applies to the confidentiality of scholarship recipients.

A bill that would explicitly criminalize the taking of free-distribution newspapers is progressing in the state legislature here.