Florida state Rep. Alex Andrade introduced HB 951, which would roll back free speech protections secured by one of the most important Supreme Court decisions: New York Times Company v. Sullivan.
Last spring, the University of Northern Iowa’s student newspaper reported about the administration’s unconstitutional prior restraint of media interviews given by resident assistants.
West Virginia state senators unanimously voted to pass Senate Bill 121, providing for the creation of the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act. The bill is now in the House of Delegates for consideration.
FIRE filed an amicus brief asking a federal court to protect journalists’ right to cover the recently concluded 2022 midterm elections in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Through casework at FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative, we’ve identified a couple of trends that characterize the current landscape for the student press.
Texas officials arrested citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her reporting.
Political boycotts are protected expression under the First Amendment, but a recent rash of laws bar government contractors from participating in boycotts of goods and services originating from Israel.
