In Florida, the Associated Press and other news organizations fought a FERPA battle with the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2009 over the transcripts of Florida State University’s appeal of penalties for improper assistance to athletes. The First District Court of Appeal upheld a circuit court decision that the documents, having been received by a state agency, were public and not protected by FERPA because they did not contain “information directly related to a student.” Rather, they dealt with “allegations of misconduct” by the athletic department and only “tangentially” with the students who benefitted, the court said. But the names of the students remained protected.