If you need assistance or information

JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission has a range of information and activities to gain assistance and information for those needing assistance with legal and ethical issues

For legal assistance
• Consider pushing our Panic Button. That action and completion of  couple informational questions will alert members of the commission to your situation and they will contact you as soon as possible. They might offer help, they might direct you to information on the commission site or work to put you in touch with additional help.

• Check out our Foundations materials.

• Investigate our wealth of information on Hazelwood, a Teacher’s Kit for Curing Hazelwood and that of the SPLC, with its Cure Hazelwood materials.

• We also have a thorough list of court decisions affecting student expression here.

• Of course, the most reliable and most official resource is the Student Press Law Center. Contact it for specific legal advice and information.

For ethical assistance
The commission offers a range of materials, including:

• Ethical guidelines for online media. This package includes a link to the Social Media Toolkit, a set of lessons and activities to help you move online ethically. It also contains JEA’s guidelines for online media.

• Ethical yearbook guidelines. Ethical issues facing yearbooks often are neglected. This material from some of the nation’s leading yearbook advisers should offer assistance.

• Ethical guidelines for visual reporting. The material provides support for those visual reporting questions that can cause issues with new – and experienced – staffs.

In short, assistance is available. Just be sure to ask.

Our next blog will focus on new information and materials.