"The Fallbrook Union High School District will pay $7,500 to the faculty advisor of the Fallbrook High School campus newspaper and $20,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union to settle a lawsuit over a censored article and editorial.
Five Fallbrook High School journalism students and the ACLU filed the suit in November 2008, a year after Principal Rod King told faculty advisor Dave Evans that he couldn't run a student-written article in the Tomahawk's November 2007 edition about former Superintendent Tom Anthony's resignation.
Officials have declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding Anthony's resignation.
The article on Anthony was held despite Evans' 'strong objections,' according to the ACLU.
King also ordered Evans later to hold an editorial critical of the district's abstinence-only sex education program."