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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Mar. 29, 2008

News Flash: Student Journalists Allowed Too Much Freedom

Fourm Column - By Ricardo J. Soto- The current policy giving high-school journalists unbridled discretion to exercise their free speech rights needs to be re-examined.

FORUM COLUMN

By Ricardo J. Soto
This article appears on Page 6

      At the end of last month, newspapers throughout California ran articles trumpeting the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a California Court of Appeals decision, Smith v. Novato Unified School District, 150 Cal.App.4th 1439 (2007), finding that a letter from the Novato Unified School District, signed by its superintende...

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