April 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
Civil rights groups recently intervened in a free-speech controversy at the San Francisco Unified School District after a school suspended three high school seniors and banned them from graduation and prom over comments they made online. The students were suspended from George Washington High...
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July 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
Under new policies approved this week by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, the chancellor's office will get more authority over the student senate, and colleges won't get state funding anymore for students who repeat certain courses more than three times. At its...
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June 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
Some California community college students and advocates are concerned that a proposed policy change would allow the chancellor's office to stifle dissent from the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. An amendment [PDF] to the Board of Governors' standing orders up...
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May 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
An unlikely alliance won a free speech victory in Shasta County Superior Court yesterday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the North State Tea Party Alliance both filed lawsuits challenging the Redding Public Library’s decision to regulate who can distribute...
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January 31, 2011, 12:05 AM
Donny Tobolski will never look at the share button on Facebook the same. In December, the 15-year-old sophomore at Mesa Verde High decided to post on his Facebook page that his honors biology teacher was a "fat a** who should stop eating fast food, and is a douche bag." These...
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January 6, 2011, 12:05 AM
A new report from a national free speech advocacy organization found most of the four-year universities it surveyed had speech codes that substantially limit students' freedom of speech, including dozens of colleges in California. In its annual report, the Foundation for Individual Rights...
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August 3, 2010, 12:05 AM
The California State Assembly approved legislation yesterday that guarantees free-speech rights for students and teachers at charter schools. Passed by a 51-19 vote, Senate Bill 438 now goes to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who will have 12 days to either sign or veto it. The Senate...
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July 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
When the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed a UC Hastings College of the Law decision to bar a Christian student group from receiving university funds last month, some free-speech advocates winced, saying the court's opinion would be used by colleges and universities to squelch offensive or unpopular...
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July 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
School boards are trying to reverse a federal court ruling banning administrators from controlling the free-speech rights of teachers and other school employees. According to a brief filed yesterday in 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the...
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July 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
An Orange County high school newspaper and yearbook adviser who stood up to the school's administration when it threatened to censor the paper has been dismissed, prompting accusations of retaliation. Konnie Krislock, adviser at Orange County High School of the Arts, got a letter...
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March 18, 2010, 12:06 AM
Clarifying the line between free speech and political advertising on the Internet is proving to be a thorny issue for the California Fair Political Practices Commission, which held the first of two planned hearings on the subject yesterday morning. The commission's subcommittee...
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February 15, 2010, 12:04 AM
A reporter for the tiny Dodge City Daily Globe in Kansas was forced to testify at a closed “inquisition” convened late Friday by a prosecutor who had wanted the journalist’s notes and sources from a recent story. In October, reporter Claire O’Brien went to the...
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February 1, 2010, 12:25 AM
Two free-speech groups have urged Los Angeles City College officials to stop censoring student journalists, describing the administration as one of the worst offenders in recent memory. The Student Press Law Center and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education outlined their complaints...
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