A 13 year old student at St. Petersburg Middle School runs anamateuronline blog used to expose the poor state of public school cafeteria food in Tampa Bay. As part of her blog she interviews a high ranking official with the public school system who discloses that the city of St. Petersburg school board is taking bribes from a local food company. In exchange for the brides the school board is buying food that is not safe for human consumption.

The student posts this information to her blog, including the information from the high ranking school official. She claims the information is from "a high ranking person in the State of Florida with personal knowledge of the situation."

Her blog gets millions of views due to the shocking allegations in her story. A local newspaper also picks up the story and runs it in their paper without ever talking to the student or the high ranking official.

What is true of the Florida Evidence Code with respect to this situation?

Question 5 options:

	a. The local newspaper does not have to identify the source of their story under 90.5015 because communications are always private.
	b. Because the high ranking official is a government employee they may not be a confidential source per the Florida Evidence Code.
	c.The student can be made to identify her source because she does not qualify as a "professional journalist" under 90.5015 d. The student cannot be made to identify her source because it qualifies as "news" under 90.5015

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