Student Press Law Center, Inc.
Mission:
The Student Press Law Center is an advocate for student First Amendment rights, for freedom of online speech, and for open government on campus. The SPLC provides information, training and legal assistance at no charge to student journalists and the educators who work with them. In addition, the SPLC operates a formal Attorney Referral Network of approximately 175 lawyers across the country who are available to provide free legal representation to local students when necessary. Approximately 2,000 student journalists, teachers and others contact the Center each year for help or information. Calls come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The SPLC is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) corporation. The Center is headquartered in Arlington, Va, where it shares a suite of offices with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The organization is run by an executive director and a corporate board of directors composed primarily of journalism educators, professional journalists and attorneys. Approximately one-half of the SPLC''s budget comes in the form of donations from student journalists and teachers. The remaining money comes from various foundations, corporations and individuals interested in First Amendment education.
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The Broadside
08/29/11
Student Press Law Center has helped and educated our newsroom during the busiest, most contentious and legally tricky period of our sixty- year history as a campus newspaper . We are grateful for all the time they have given to us and we are strengthened as student journalists knowing that we are ...
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andimulshine
07/30/11
The Student Press Law Center empowers young people, giving them the tools and confidence to participate in our great democracy. As a high school newspaper adviser, I encourage my students to use this wonderful resource whenever they have questions about their rights. The law center's website is a ...
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Kathy M.
07/17/11
Student Press Law Center has been faithful to its mission for decades. I met SPLC founder Mark Goodman in the early 90s when he made presentations to the DC Board of Education. I've since become the leader of an independent, teen-produced newspaper that closely follows issues of censorship. SPLC is ...
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