Weeks after Spotlight PA, the Centre Daily Times, and StateCollege.com—represented by the Clinic’s First Amendment Clinic and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—sued over Penn State’s trustee “gag policy,” the board lifted the speech restrictions for emeriti trustees, though the newsrooms argue the change is a tactical move to evade review and that the policy still silences the board’s active members.
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Penn State trustees updated bylaws amid free speech lawsuit • Spotlight PA