Gross Misdemeanor
Robert Sokoloski, Orr, 3rd degree DWI-alcohol concentration .08 or more within 2 hours of driving, local confinement 1 year, stay 1 year for 2 years, supervised probation 2 years, total fines/fees, $615.
Stephen Moore, Side Lake, DWI-refuse to submit to chemical test; breath or test refusal or failure, local confinement 1 year, stay 361 days for 2 years, credit for time served 4 days, supervised probation 2 years, total fines/fees, $690.
Mallory Lammi, Orr, test refusal in the 3rd degree, local confinement 1 year, stay 361 days for 2 years, credit for time served 4 days, supervised probation 2 years, total fines/fees, $690.
Tori Pederson, Chisholm, 3rd degree DWI-operate motor vehicle, alcohol concentration .08 within 2 hours, local confinement 1 year, stay 1 year for 2 years, supervised probation 2 years, total fines/fees, $1,015.
More than ever, student journalists must be on the lookout for censorship
In 2019, FIRE released “Under Pressure: The Warning Signs of Student Press Censorship,” a report documenting FIRE’s advocacy for student journalists’ rights and the threats they face. With over two decades spent defending campus free expression, FIRE has seen firsthand that student journalists are often the immediate line of defense against administrations intent on violating student and faculty rights and sometimes, they pay the price for it.
Today, for Student Press Freedom Day, we’re revisiting some of the student press cases FIRE had fielded since the report’s release and the warning signs they illustrate to remind student journalists how to identify, and stay vigilant against, potential censorship. (For more information about Student Press Freedom Day, see the Student Press Law Center’s list of events and resources, and join us today at 1:30 p.m. ET for a panel discussion about studen
Cassie Conklin is asking questions.
She rehabbed Frostburg State’s student newspaper into a relentless university watchdog.
Now they’re watching her.
Cassie Conklin used to stuff crumpled up copies of the student newspaper, left for trash, in her shoes.
“The Bottom Line was so lacking that my partner and I would take whole stacks of them to dry our boots.”
But Conklin doesn’t want to disparage the former journalists at Frostburg State University’s independent student reporting outlet.
“I just think there wasn’t a lot of engagement with the newspaper. It’s not like people were coming to the newspaper with tips.”
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Newsdesk by FIRE February 17, 2021
This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is releasing its 10th list of the “worst colleges for free speech.” Since our first list in 2011, more than 70 institutions in 31 states have found themselves named and shamed for actively working to shut down student and faculty speech rights.
Each year, hundreds of students and faculty members come to FIRE for help when their individual rights are threatened. Many of these cases are quietly resolved. Many more are resolved not so quietly. But the cases you’ll read about below are the ones that went kicking and screaming right onto this list.
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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
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I: Introduction ▲
It’s difficult to find any aspect of our lives that has not been impacted by COVID‑19. Travel, holidays, business, entertainment, and much more look completely different today than they did a year ago. As K–12 and college students, faculty, teachers, and administrators know all too well, education has been deeply changed perhaps permanently by travel restrictions, school closures, and the switch to online education.But COVID‑19’s consequences for education have not been limited to location, access, or, in the University of California, Berkeley’s case, temporary bans on outdoor exercise. On campuses across the country, speech and due process rights have been challenged, too, as administrators struggle to respond to the pandemic. At the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we have been paying careful attention to how these