Free speech advocates appeal to Wash. State Senate for third chance at student press bill (SPLC)

© 2009 Student Press Law Center
February 19, 2009

WASHINGTON – Students, newspaper advisers, school board representatives, and First Amendment advocates filed into a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington yesterday to debate, for the third year in a row, the merits of student free press legislation in their state.

Senate Bill 5946, introduced this year by Sen. Joe McDermott (D-West Seattle), would give high school and college students the right to free expression in school-sponsored media, limit administrative control over the content of student speech, and immunize schools and universities from liability for content of student publications.

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