Legislation Conference

STATE LEGISLATION PROTECTING STUDENT PRESS FREEDOM National Symposium

In November 2008, a year after the passage of a student free expression law by the Oregon legislature and just days after an election that engaged millions of young people and that moved some state legislatures to the left, the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University hosted the first national symposium to explore the movement for Student Free Press Legislation. The assembled group of lawyers, journalists, educators and students had high hopes for a reinvigorated movement supporting student freedom bills in states around the country. But change was slow in coming. It wasn’t until 2015 when North Dakota passed a student free expression law that the momentum began. In 2016, two more states (Illinois and Maryland) enacted laws as well. So in November 2016, eight years after CSJ held its first conversation, we brought together once again a group of national experts to look toward the future of student press freedom laws. The assembled group of lawyers, journalists, educators and students had high hopes for a reinvigorated movement supporting student freedom laws in states around the country.

STATE LEGISLATION PROTECTING STUDENT PRESS FREEDOM: New voices on the move

CENTER FOR SCHOLASTIC JOURNALISM 2016 SYMPOSIUM VIDEOS

Part 1: Welcome and Introduction