The University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic conducted a record number of trainings during the Spring 2022 semester.
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Clinic goes on the road to conduct 1A trainings
First Amendment audits – Protecting the right to record
During the Fall 2022 semester, the University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic trained over 70 local officials and more than 50 librarians around the state on the First Amendment right to record and how to appropriately respond to First Amendment auditors.
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Clinic and Georgia First Amendment Foundation publish guide to accessing court records and proceedings
The First Amendment Clinic has collaborated with the Georgia First Amendment Foundation to create a first-of-its-kind guide to accessing state and federal court records and proceedings in Georgia.
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Norins and Peters moderate libel law panel for Bar Media & Judiciary Conference
DISINFORMATION AND POLARIZATION: IS LIBEL LAW A CAUSE AND/OR A CURE?
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New Voices Georgia – Protecting high school press freedoms
Norins, C; Harmon-Walker, T. and Tharani, N., Restoring Student Press Freedoms: Why Every State Needs a “New Voices” Law, 32 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL 63 (2021).
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Clinic conducts training in Towns County to improve public access to government
On December 17, 2021 the Clinic partnered with the Georgia First Amendment Foundation to lead training on Georgia’s Open Records Act and Open Meetings Act for town and county government officials gathered in Hiawassee, Georgia.
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Prior review & prior restraint in school-sponsored media
Prior restraint is a type of censorship where speech or expression is stopped before it occurs.
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Clinic presents to National College of Probate Judges
In November 2021, Clinic director Clare R. Norins and legal fellow Samantha C. Hamilton presented to over 80 members of the National College of Probate Judges at their annual fall conference held in Savannah, Georgia.
Keep ReadingClinic students lead citizens’ training on “sunshine laws”
On September 30, 2021, First Amendment Clinic students Austin Albertson, Paige Medley, and Kyle Renner led a webinar training, hosted by the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, on open government “sunshine laws” in Georgia.
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Amicus win in Georgia Supreme Court under anti-SLAPP statute
On October 19, 2021, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a decision in ACLU v. Zeh giving full force and effect to the free-speech protections codified by Georgia’s anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“anti-SLAPP”) statute.
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Clinic helps restore public comment at city council meetings
During the summer of 2021, residents of Greensboro, Georgia contacted the First Amendment Clinic about the public comment period at city council meetings having been indefinitely shut down in response to community members expressing their views about a controversial city official.
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Norins comments on students’ free speech rights post-Mahanoy
The following guest column by Clinic director Clare R. Norins was published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on June 28, 2021.
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Clinic goes on the road to conduct 1A trainings
The University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic conducted a record number of trainings during the Spring 2022 semester.
Keep Reading
First Amendment audits – Protecting the right to record
During the Fall 2022 semester, the University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic trained over 70 local officials and more than 50 librarians around the state on the First Amendment right to record and how to appropriately respond to First Amendment auditors.
Keep Reading
Clinic and Georgia First Amendment Foundation publish guide to accessing court records and proceedings
The First Amendment Clinic has collaborated with the Georgia First Amendment Foundation to create a first-of-its-kind guide to accessing state and federal court records and proceedings in Georgia.
Keep Reading
Norins and Peters moderate libel law panel for Bar Media & Judiciary Conference
DISINFORMATION AND POLARIZATION: IS LIBEL LAW A CAUSE AND/OR A CURE?
Keep Reading
New Voices Georgia – Protecting high school press freedoms
Norins, C; Harmon-Walker, T. and Tharani, N., Restoring Student Press Freedoms: Why Every State Needs a “New Voices” Law, 32 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL 63 (2021).
Keep Reading
Clinic conducts training in Towns County to improve public access to government
On December 17, 2021 the Clinic partnered with the Georgia First Amendment Foundation to lead training on Georgia’s Open Records Act and Open Meetings Act for town and county government officials gathered in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Keep Reading
Prior review & prior restraint in school-sponsored media
Prior restraint is a type of censorship where speech or expression is stopped before it occurs.
Keep Reading
Clinic presents to National College of Probate Judges
In November 2021, Clinic director Clare R. Norins and legal fellow Samantha C. Hamilton presented to over 80 members of the National College of Probate Judges at their annual fall conference held in Savannah, Georgia.
Keep ReadingClinic students lead citizens’ training on “sunshine laws”
On September 30, 2021, First Amendment Clinic students Austin Albertson, Paige Medley, and Kyle Renner led a webinar training, hosted by the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, on open government “sunshine laws” in Georgia.
Keep Reading
Amicus win in Georgia Supreme Court under anti-SLAPP statute
On October 19, 2021, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a decision in ACLU v. Zeh giving full force and effect to the free-speech protections codified by Georgia’s anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“anti-SLAPP”) statute.
Keep Reading
Clinic helps restore public comment at city council meetings
During the summer of 2021, residents of Greensboro, Georgia contacted the First Amendment Clinic about the public comment period at city council meetings having been indefinitely shut down in response to community members expressing their views about a controversial city official.
Keep Reading
Norins comments on students’ free speech rights post-Mahanoy
The following guest column by Clinic director Clare R. Norins was published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on June 28, 2021.
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