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Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize any prior restraint of student speech or the student press. Went into effect Jan. 1, 2007
Sen. Leland Yee
Jim Ewert, legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said his organization asked Yee to sponsor the bill because of the continued pressure on advisers by administrators to engage in the kind of censorship that state law prohibits administrators from exercising Of the seven states with laws protecting student speech, only Colorado and Kansas have provisions for journalism advisers
If passed, SB 1370 would be the first law solely protecting journalism advisers
SB 1370 prompted by
Lane v. Simon (10CA 2007): Former KSU Collegian editors Katie Lane and Sarah Rice alleged that the reassignment of faculty adviser Ron Johnson violated their 1A rights But 10CA dismissed the case as moot because the students had graduated
Had not tried to substitute new editors as plaintiffs
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