TENNESSEE -- The First Amendment rights of four high school football players were not infringed when they were kicked off the team after petitioning against the coach, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
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Censuring the censors: high school officials receive Muzzle Awards
High school
administrators in Tennessee, Florida and California earned a place on the same
blacklist as President Bush, the Department of Justice and the Federal
Communications Commission chairman.
What do school administrators at
Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, Wellington High School in Florida and Troy
High School in California have in common with heavy-hitters like top U.S.
officials?
All are governmental bodies that stomped on free speech
rights in a major way during 2005, according to the Thomas Jefferson Center for
the Protection of Free Expression.
Being on the list comes with a
dubious award called the
New Tenn. law requires campus crime disclosure
The law, co-sponsored by state Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, and state Rep. Harry Brooks, R-Knoxville, amends the Tennessee Open Records Act to force public colleges and universities to disclose three categories of student disciplinary records.
Tenn. law forces public colleges to release judicial records
Student journalists who attend public colleges and universities in Tennessee are now entitled to more information about violent crimes and sex offenses committed by their peers, following the passage of a law signed in May by Gov. Phil Bredesen.