School just started but the debate surrounding gender and race in classrooms is already at a fever pitch aged 13 to 21 who wants to check out and read books digitally in response to the nationwide wave of book censorship and restrictions.
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The Brooklyn Public Library offers free membership to anyone in the U.S. The books are banned in several public schools and libraries in the U.S., but young people can read digital versions from anywhere through the library. The defendants argued the books were removed as part of a regular “weeding” process following the library’s existing policies, but Pitman said there was clear influence from outside sources.īanned books are visible at the Central Library, a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system, in New York City on Thursday, July 7, 2022. They did not respond to CNN requests for comment. Llano County Judge Ron Cunningham, county commissioners Jerry Don Moss, Peter Jones, Mike Sandoval, and Linda Raschke library system director Amber Milum and four members of the Llano County library board, Bonnie Wallace, Rochelle Wells, Rhonda Schneider, and Gay Baskin, are named as co-defendants in the case. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Llano County officials have complied with the judge’s order. Our nation was founded on the free exchange of ideas, and banning books you disagree with is a direct attack on our most basic liberties.” “The government cannot tell citizens what they can or can’t read. “This is a ringing victory for democracy,” said Ellen Leonida, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in the Texas case. Many of the book bans have also been aimed at authors of color exploring history, racism or their own experiences in America. Many of these efforts seek to pull books with LGBTQ characters or themes and are part of a broader, conservative-led movement to chisel away at the rights and status of LGBTQ Americans. The fight to protect access to books comes amid a book banning boom, with an alarming increase in attempts to censor books in K-12 schools, universities and public libraries. “Although libraries are afforded great discretion for their selection and acquisition decisions, the First Amendment prohibits the removal of books from libraries based on either viewpoint or content discrimination,” Pitman said. The library system also is required to reflect these books as available in their catalog and cannot remove any books for any reason while the case is ongoing, US District Judge Robert Pitman said in his order. Texas residents are suing their county after books were removed from public libraries The lawsuit addresses "censorship of public libraries being a violation of the first and fourteenth amendments" and comes as conservatives continue to seek and implement restrictions on children's content covering American history, racism, and LGBTQ issues.
A group of local residents are suing Llano County in federal court for the County's removal and censorship of library books addressing racism and LGBTQ issues. HOUSTON, TEXAS - APRIL 26: Books line the shelves at the Rice University Library on Apin Houston, Texas. The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio claimed county officials removed books from the shelves of the three-branch public library system “because they disagree with the ideas within them” and terminated access to thousands of digital books because they could not ban two specific titles.īooks ordered to return to shelves include “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” by Jazz Jennings. Seven residents sued county officials in April 2022, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and Republican lawmakers were removed from public libraries or access was restricted.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours, according to an order filed Thursday.
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