Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director
A Pennsylvania eighth-grader recently learned a hard lesson: At least one federal judge says school officials can reach off-campus and into cyberspace and the home to punish what the court agreed was a “vulgar and lewd” Web posting aimed at a school principal.
Failing in her First Amendment-based argument, the student at Blue Mountain Middle School in Orwigsburg, Pa., did not…
