Press win — Freedom of the Press Foundation: NJ court doubles down on one of the worst censorship orders we’ve seen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York, July 10, 2026 — A New Jersey court partially upheld a prior restraint against a community newspaper and vastly extended it to apply to all members of the “press,” in a troubling new order issued on July 9. Judge Thomas McCloskey had previously granted an emergency order that required New Brunswick Today to remove from its YouTube channel a security video from a local high school that it received from a confidential source and to refrain from writing about the video. The video showed a school security guard confronting a student who tried to pass through metal detectors with an airsoft BB gun, causing the school to go into lockdown. The court’s previous order also prohibited the newspaper from publishing any other school security videos. In a July 9 order ,…