A Georgia high school principal confiscated the January issue of their school newspaper and declared the newspaper under prior review in response to a story about eligibility rules for athletes.
The district spokesperson Susan Hale cited the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, maintaining that the newspaper story contained confidential information about a minor. Hale held that the newspaper needed to get parent permission for reporting the student’s interview in which he said he was ineligible because his father moved just outside the school’s attendance zone. -db
From Student Law Press Center, February 8, 2011, by Aly Brumback.