‘Censorship, full stop’: Judge’s order gives him final say on publication of school security footage

‘Censorship, full stop’: Judge’s order gives him final say on publication of school security footage

In a contentious free speech battle between a New Jersey news outlet and a school district, a New Jersey judge has upheld a prior restraint that squelched coverage of a campus security incident — and broadened the order to all members of the press.  In the order issued late Thursday, Judge Thomas Daniel McCloskey of Middlesex County, New Jersey, allowed local outlet New Brunswick Today to publish leaked school security camera footage of a high s…

NJ court doubles down on one of the worst censorship orders we’ve seen

The judge narrowed his prior restraint in one way, but vastly expanded it in another. And it’s still a constitutional mess