NEW JERSEY
-- A bill prohibiting school districts from administering surveys that ask students sensitive questions without written parental consent was signed into law in January by then-acting Gov.Tag: Spring 2002
Judge dismisses suit against Portland State
OREGON
‘Killian Nine’ student loses in appeals court
FLORIDA — A federal appellate court in March affirmed a district court's ruling that a student at Killian High School in suburban Miami did not have her constitutional rights violated when she was arrested and strip searched for distributing an underground pamphlet at the school.
The Miami-Dade County School District had Liliana Cuesta and eight other Killian students arrested in February 1998 for publishing threatening comments in their underground publication titled First Amendment. The 20-page anonymous pamphlet included a drawing of principal Timothy Dawson with a dart through his head and a column that mused about the consequences of shooting him.
Cuesta was strip searched in accordance with Dade County corrections intake policy.
Cornell loses appeal in open-records case
NEW YORK
-- A state supreme court judge in January denied an appeal by Cornell University in a freedom of information case started when a radio show host sought access to information about the university's planned agriculture and technology park in the nearby city of Geneva.\nIn 2000, Jeremy Alderson, then-host of National Public Radio program "The Nobody Show," said the project would have an adverse effect on area wildlife and crops, and sued Cornell when it refused to release documents about the site.
\nThe park is to be used for biotech research of genetically engineered crops.
\nThe state court decision followed an earlier ruling that since Cornell's agricultural school is affiliated with the State University of New York system, the university is obligated to release its records under the state open-records law.
U. of Missouri amends research paper policy
MISSOURI
Online muckraker banned by school
PENNSYLVANIA
SUNY affiliate sued for meetings access
NEW YORK
-- A student at the State University of New York at Albany sued the university-affiliated Auxiliary Services Corp.Students ‘bugged’ by listening device uncovered in newsroom
CALIFORNIA — Students at Richard Nixon's alma mater are used to hearing about the legacy of their most famous alumnus.
Anarchist site closed down after FBI raid
CALIFORNIA
N.J. campus withholds crime log
NEW JERSEY
-- Statewide, journalists are likely to rejoice in July when an antiquated and restrictive open-records law will be replaced, but after their access to campus crime logs was recently denied, student journalists at William Paterson University especially are counting down the days.\nWhen the Pioneer Times stepped up its coverage of campus police in mid-March, its access to crime logs at the public university in Wayne was suddenly curtailed, adviser Liz Birge said.