Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act advances

By Autumn Shelton, WV Press Association

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – With only one day to go in the 2023 legislative session, members of the House of Delegates voted in favor of multiple bills, including one that will ban TikTok from government devices, one that provides exceptions for the disclosure of confidential records from correctional institutions, and one that provides legislators a pay raise. 

The engrossed committee substitute for SB…