First Amendment Rodeo 7/25-8/8, 2011
A round-up of intellectual freedom issues in the news
Privacy/Technology
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill
ACLU Probing Government Use of Cell Phone Location Data
Web tracking has become a privacy time bomb
Will Missouri ‘Facebook Law’ spook teachers away from social media?
Patriot Act
Senate Intel Committee Blocks Report on “Secret Law”
Free Speech
Use of Worcester Public Library meeting rooms studied as library reacts to violent incident
Freedom of Expression
Homeless patrons prompt Bethlehem Area Public Library’s behavior policy
See also:
Lehigh Valley, northwest New Jersey libraries enforce behavior policies
Censorship/Books
Two books pulled from Republic school library shelves
See also:
Policy on movies next for Republic schools
Suburban Springfield-area school board bowed to book banners after yearlong fight
2 comments
I searched on your blog to see if you have mentioned the April book burning in Colorado City, Arizona (http://www.ksl.com/?nid=508&sid=15219098) and could find no mention. Please keep the story in the news! We can’t let up until the perpetrators are held responsible. Thanks.
Joseph N. Anderson, Vice-Chair, Utah Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee
Book burning? In this day and age? Beggars belief.