Free speech group defends Marin County student journalists amid investigation

CITING BOTH the First Amendment and California’s student free expression law, a national press rights and free speech group has called for a Marin County school district to stop what its superintendent recently called an “open and ongoing” investigation of how student journalists chose to publish a photograph that drew complaints.

The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, told officials of the Tamalpais Union High School District on Monday to back off from the award-winning student newspaper Redwood Bark of Redwood High School in Larkspur.