Parent Appeals Copyright Loss Over Mental Health Student Surveys

A Kentucky parent is taking her public record fight over access to digital copies of a copyrighted mental health survey to the Sixth Circuit.

Miranda Stovall’s appeal was docketed on Thursday by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a month after the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky dismissed her suit. She sued a subsidiary of publisher Pearson PLC and a Louisville, Ky.-area school board in June for allegedly misusing copyright and public-records laws to deny her copies of mental health surveys administered to students.

• Stovall’s lawsuit described her as “an advocate for parental ...