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SPLC addresses JEA’s prior review, restraint definitions
The Student Press Law Center, in its May 4 blog, put JEA’s newly adopted definitions of prior review and prior restraint into legal and educational perspective. “If a school official insists on reading a student publication ahead of time, they will eventually try to censor it,” SPLC consultant Mike Hiestand wrote. “I would like someone to…
Fight for the Right to Write!
Puyallup, Wash. – About 50 interested, supportive people joined together on a blustery Monday evening at the Puyallup Public Library to hear the editors of the three local high school newspapers share their plans for fighting the current student expression policies and regulations in the Puyallup School District. During the forum, Student Press Law Center…
Meet the Press Rights student partners
Thanks to JEA member Bryan Farley, you can see the kick-off of the Scholastic Press Rights Commission Student Partners project. His blog, “More Than Kids: Understanding People Through Photography,” includes links to photos of the group’s booth at the Portland convention. Three of the high school students able to attend the convention were Ted Noelker…
Fight for the right distributes flyer
Supporters of the Fight for the Right to Write are currently distributing flyers within their community. The group’s Facebook page reports more about the flyers and about T-shirts the group has for sale. Their page also has contact information for those wishing to be involved and an order form for T-shirts. The group has a…
Playing in the court of public opinion
Students and friends of student media in Washington’s Puyallup school district are ready to take the next step in their fight against prior review since a jury declared they had not invaded students’ privacy and the school had no liability in a story about oral sex. Their next fight will be in the court of…
Paper carries more information on Puyallup decision
The News Tribune today reported more information about a jury’s decision that student journalists did not invade the privacy of four other students or negligently publish their names. The story also notes some jury members told the school’s lawyer that the jury believed in freedom of expression and that the story concerned matters of concern…
Jury finds for school district in Puyallup case
The News Tribune is reporting the jury found for the Puyallup school district. The story indicates more information coming tomorrow.
Puyallup case goes to jury
For an update on the Puyallup, Washington, “oral sex coverage,” go to this SPLC Newsflash. The SPLC reports the judge in the case “issued a confusing ruling in which she determined that The Jagwire was a “limited public forum,” but said that it was nevertheless subject to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1988 Hazelwood ruling, which allows school…
Music Use: Just what IS legal?
That’s what Student Press Law Center executive director Frank LoMonte will discuss in the Webinar “It’s Not YourTube or Your Music.” Thanks to the Radio and Television Digital News Association, you can register now to be part of the discussion Friday, April 23 at 2 p.m. EDT. LoMonte will cover what you and your students…
Next steps
This week, at the JEA/NSPA convention in Portland, the press rights commission has taken several initiatives: • Involving, for the first time 45words, its student partners group • Designing a working definition of prior review and prior restraint of scholastic media • Participating in a Skype discussion with a lawyer about a Washington State case…
JEA board defines prior review
The JEA Board of Directors passed the following definition of prior review at its meeting April 15: Prior review occurs when anyone not on the publication/media staff requires that he or she be allowed to read, view or approve student material before distribution, airing or publication. Prior restraint occurs when someone not on the publication/media…
Today’s the day
Today’s the day a group of Student Partners will meet face to face for the first time. Today they will meet students and advisers at a booth in the Portland Convention Center and begin to connect in person with students just like them, working hard at their schools around the country to tell important stories…