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LOUISIANA — A state representative is sponsoring an amendment to the Louisiana Public Records Act that would give minors access to public records.Louisiana is the only state that requires a person to be “ of the age of majority ” — 18 in Louisiana — to have access to public documents . Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act , a federal law that penalizes schools for releasing student records without authorization . He said he expects the university to punish Peck.According to the Pipe Dream , Peck said the article violated election rules and that distributing the magazine at the library violated school policy . Congress passed the act to shield minors under the age of 17 from online sexual material , such as pornography.During the hearing , Ann Beeson , the American Civil Liberties Union attorney , presented concerns online publishers and artists have with the Child Online Protection Act.The act " criminalizes speech adults have the right to access , " Beeson said , noting the law criminalizes some Web site content that is not sexual , such as the word " breast " or a description of nudity . " If kids are n't allowed to discuss the benefits of fact-based sexual education , then the school has censored the people who are in best position to criticize school policy , " Brain Chase , the students ' lawyer , said of student journalists.Chase , an attorney from Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund , a national gay civil-rights organization , argued that the school district cannot deny the Gay-Straight Alliance the right to meet on campus simply because of the district 's abstinence-only policy . The jury also decided , however , that the information could be traced to individual students through other publicly available information , and therefore could not be disclosed because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act , a federal law that allows the U.S. Department of Education to fine schools that release student educational records.Fish plans to ask for a mistrial because he believes the verdict is contradictory . His requests , made in June of last year , were repeatedly ignored and finally denied , Barker said.Under state law , officials are not required to grant open-records requests to minors , but they are not prohibited from doing so either , according to Barker , who was 16 years old at the time he filed the requests.Barker finally obtained the documents in January , but only after an adult friend requested the records on his behalf . " Under the Third Circuit 's ruling , Whitehead said schools might prohibit students from wearing armbands to protest the war in Iraq , referencing the black armbands that Des Moines , Iowa , junior high and high school students wore to protest the Vietnam War . If we disregard the possible grant of a fuero at Zamora in 1094 , Raymond 's generosity after the loss of Portugal is concentrated entirely in Galicia , excepting his charter of May 1 , 1096 . In its investigation , the school board found that students had followed district policy on student publications and that the school board cannot suppress or censor the articles because of the Kansas Student Publications Act , which grants student journalists the right to publish controversial articles . He also found that the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana , a nonprofit , nonpartisan research group , recommended in 2003 that the Louisiana Public Records Act be amended to grant minors access .