A Utah school district had a story about a teacher accused of being a perv yanked from a high school newspaper, according to the budding journalists — who took matters into their own hands and published their work on a new website they created.

Herriman High School reporters say their article about Ryan White — a teacher accused of sending inappropriate texts to female students — was abruptly taken down Friday, less than 12 hours after being posted.

“[The district] didn’t like our story, they didn’t like us putting the news out there and we weren’t shedding them in the most positive light,” student reporter Max Gordon told KUTV. “They just decided to shut us down.”

The students published their article about White’s sudden departure on their newspaper’s website The Telegraph, and their report was picked up by multiple local news outlets.

Alex Sousa, the paper’s adviser, said it was Herriman High administrators, not the district, who ordered him to take the site down in response to the articles.

“The students, in their tenacity, posted the story that they had written, and when the administration found that, they called me early in the morning and told me to delete that story and also to disable the site,” Sousa told the Deseret News.

While their website was temporarily offline, the student journalists built an independent site called The Telegram and reposted their original articles.

They also started an online petition calling for an end to censorship and restoration of the paper’s social media accounts.

A spokesperson for the Jordan School District said they support “thought-provoking, informative and accurate reporting” in a statement Monday but didn’t address whether they’d scrubbed the site.

“It is the responsibility of students, school advisers and administrators to have every story meet these expectations. Again, we encourage students to participate in responsible journalism, sharing informative stories as part of their educational experience,” the statement said.

The Unified Police Department confirmed it was currently investigating White for allegedly sending inappropriate texts to a 17-year-old last November and the district confirmed he had been let go, Fox13 reported.