A News Site Published a Video of a School Lockdown. Then The Video Was Gone.

A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove the video and barred it from writing about the episode, alarming First Amendment advocates.

The tip that Charlie Kratovil received in early May was cryptic. There had been a lockdown at New Brunswick High School in New Jersey, the tipster said. Parents were told it was only a drill.

Mr. Kratovil, the editor and founder of New Brunswick Today, got to work. He called sources, sought police records and pressed for information at a New Brunswick Board of Education meeting. His reporting unearthed school surveillance video of what prompted the lockdown: footage showing security officials surrounding a 16-year-old student and confiscating what appeared to be a gun.