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- High school reporters face censorship from school officials involving an ambitious reporting project.
- Hundreds sign a petition backing student journalists’ right to publish without interference from school leaders.
- Attempts to censor student journalists have been on the rise.
Administrators at an affluent Marin County high school district appear to have twice recently violated a state law that protects the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists at an award-winning newspaper, the Redwood Bark.
It began with revelations pulled from the Epstein files and was followed by accusations of antisemitism over a news photo.
In both instances, student journalists’ rights under a 1977 California landmark law giving them the autonomy to publish news without interference from principals and other school leaders appear to have been ignored, First Amendment lawyers said…