by Zhaleh Breen
About you editor
When a brick was thrown through a window of an Illinois public high school, George Fiorini, a newspaper photographer, rushed in with his camera. He wanted to take pictures for the paper, as this was definitely a news-worthy event. When the police asked to see his camera, he assumed that they wanted to use his pictures as evidence.
Unfortunately for him, the principle also felt as if she was entitled to the pictures. She confiscated his camera, and told him that he was not allowed to run the pictures, telling him that because there were students under 18 in the picture, they would run into legal issues. Somebody should have told said principle that students' rights still hold true inside school walls.
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