Seattle School District seeks to remove forum policy for prior review
Even though its current open forum policy helped it avoid a lawsuit earlier this year, the Seattle School District seems determined to...
Read MoreRethinking your forum status – why the correct wording is essential
With the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear appeals on the 2nd Circuit’s Ithaca decision, student media advisers and their...
Read MoreStudent media designated public forums? Apply online for FAPFA recognition
We know there are a significant number of open forum student media out there, and we’d like to see you apply for JEA’s First Amendment...
Read MoreAmmunition against prior review and restraint Handling controversy, Part 3 of a series
Part of the difficulty in reporting controversial issues is how to define the term and the concept. Any article, if misreported in some...
Read MoreAmmunition to help define disruption Part 2 of a series
Although we hoped Tinker v DesMoines might be the definitive word for what is material or substantial disruption in schools, recent events...
Read MoreThe Seattle decision: providing ammunition for student responsibility. Part 1
By H. L. Hall In what might be a landmark decision, a Superior Court judge in Washington ruled July 22, 2011, in Sisley v Seattle School...
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