Introduced
by
To prohibit public school officials from imposing prior restraint (censorship) on a school-sponsored publication unless the content is obscene, defamatory, constitutes advertising for a product illegal for minors, or represents a clear and present danger of an unlawful act or a school disruption. Also, to prohibit disciplining a faculty advisor for refusing to censor, and provide civil immunity to school officials for any expression made by a student in the publication. Finally, the proposed statute would place a definition of college and high school “student journalists,” and what they are authorized to do, along with an assertion that they retain the right to free speech.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
