Darkness Award highlight: California school district pays for censorship of student newspaper
donal brown
December 27, 2009
The Fallbrook Union High School District who censored the student newspaper, cancelled the journalism program and reassigned the newspaper adviser agreed to pay the adviser $7,500 and reimburse the ACLU and its law firm $20,000 for legal costs. In October the First Amendment Coalition awarded its Darkness Award to Rod King, the principal responsible for canceling the program and removing the adviser. -DB Student Press Law Center December 23, 2009 By Julia Chapman Fallbrook Union