Intellectual Freedom News 03/10/2023
Censorship
- Livingston Parish library director resigns amid battle over censoring books | WBRZ (LA)
- Wolfboro article bars using town money to ban books | Conway Daily Sun (NH)
- Book banning among issues discussed at St. Charles candidate forum | Daily Herald (IL)
- One library’s cautionary tale | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
- Educational or inappropriate? Book pulled from N.J. high school class sparks heated debate. | NJ.com (NJ)
- Lafayette library board president, LCG sued for stifling free speech over censorship | Acadiana Advocate (LA)
- Anti-censorship advocates sue Lafayette library board chair over First Amendment violations | Lousiana Illuminator (LA)
- Students push back against book bans as the scope of a new Florida law expands | WUSF (FL)
- Defunded over book controversy, West Michigan library eyes changing how it selects new titles | Michigan Live (MI)
- New Cy-Fair ISD library policy increases transparency | Community Impact (TX)
- During school board discussion new book policy adopts changes | Powell Tribune (WY)
- School board responds to mom’s claim that book in Montgomery County school libraries is ‘pornographic’ | WSLS (VA)
- Hotline for public to report ‘inappropriate’ lessons launched by state school superintendent | USA Today (AZ)
- School board panel opens review of instructional material selection policies | Loudoun Now (VA)
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Surveillance program needs new protections, oversight board member says | Washington Post
- DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it | Politico
- FBI, Pentagon helped research facial recognition for street cameras, drones | Washington Post
- The cameras know who you are. Now they want to use AI to find your friends, too | Los Angeles Times
- When it comes to the dangers of AI, surveillance poses more risk than anything | NPR
- The new Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act | JD Supra
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Why Tennessee’s law limiting drag performances likely violates the First Amendment | Conversation
- Florida takes aim at the First Amendment | New Yorker
- Florida is trying to take away the American right to speak freely | New York Times
- Supreme Court delcines to decide whether city-backed prayer vigil violated First Amendment | USA Today
- EFF tells Supreme Court: Trademark law doesn’t trump First Amendment | EFF
- 303 Creative, Inc. v. Elenis | ACLU
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- New College of Florida: The conservative Christian takeover by Ron DeSantis, Chris Rufo | Teen Vogue
- Artists say their work was censored in a college exhibit. School says it’s following Idaho law | KPVI
- Some states want to reshape tenure. This time, they might succeed | Chronicle of Higher Education
- The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College | New York Times
- ‘The death knell for higher education in Florida’ — Opinion | New York Times
Legislation
- Bill to criminalize librarians a bridge to far for Arkansas legislators | Arkansas Times (AR)
- Library bill could challenge freedom of speech, director says | Camden News (AR)
- A proposed law that would require people blogging about Ron DeSantis to register with the state is a ‘clear violation of the First Amendment:’ ACLU | Insider (FL)
- Minot ‘read-in’ protests book banning legislation | KFYR (ND)
- Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. | TIME
- Targeting school library books a Texas House priority | Dallas Morning News (TX)
- Legislature sends bill to ban ‘critical race theory’ in Arizona schools to Gov. Hobbs | 3TV/CBS 5 (AZ)
- Legislation aims to deter book bans at public libraries by withholding grants | Chicago Tribune (IL)
- Abortion websites would be blocked in Texas under new bill | Verge (TX)
- Library bill rises from dead, passes House committee | Arkansas Times (AR)
- Educators, parents say Florida’s book policy ‘is harmful to children’ | WPTV (FL)
- Michigan libraries don’t stock ‘obscene’ books GOP rep’s bill would age-restrict, group says | Michigan Live (MI)
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
Social Media
- The four factors that fuel disinformation among Facebook ads | University of Florida News
Disinformation & Information Literacy
International
- In 21st century Canada, books shouldn’t need sanctuary from censors — but alas, here we are | Niagra Independent
Around the Web
- Students switch up college plans as states pass anti-LGBTQ laws | NBC
- At CPAC, trans issues dominated. But do voters care? | Reason
- GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein funding Awake Illinois | Illinois Eagle
- LTHS board candidate attended Awake Illinois workshop in January | Riverside-Brookfield Landmark
- Florida GOP ready to hand DeSantis legislative wins ahead of likely 2024 bid | Politico
- Steve Corbin: Book banning is a red flag behavior | Courier
- Both sides in Florida African American studies debate ignore power of AP | Washington Post
- DeSantis’s educational policies come right out of the Fascist playbook | CounterPunch
- Port: I went to a library to attend a book ban protest and didn’t see a single pervert or ‘groomer’ | Jamestown Sun
- Meet the FReadom Fighters taking on book bans and online abuse: ‘Books are not contraband’ | People
- Here’s why a Montclair nonprofit is donating LGBTQ-inclusive books to local preschools | NorthJersey.com
- ‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore | Washington Post
- Perspective: Educators should center authors of color | EdNC
- Book bans in Texas hurt youth and our democracy | Dallas Morning News
- Bookmobiles have a new mission: delivering banned books | WBUR
- The Republicans’ critical race war | Project Syndicate
- Inside the movement to ban books at libraries and in schools | WFTS
- Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans | Washington Post
- Libraries shouldn’t look for excuses to exclude | Iowa Capital Dispatch
- High school students say they should have freedom to choose what they want to read | WPTV
- Principal: ‘Don’t suggest books’ — Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
- What are we protecting children from by banning books? | New Yorker
ALA News
- Core ALA Preconference: Core Chicago Area Public Library Tours
- New from ACRL – “Twenty-First-Century Access Services: On the Front Line of Academic Librarianship, Second Edition”
- Core ALA Preconference: Assembling Your Consultant Tool Kit: What You Need to Know to Become a Successful Consultant
- ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibition tour from ALA and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum extended to 50 additional communities
- Core ALA Preconference: A Joint Workshop with NARDAC and PCC SCT RDA Training Task Group: Unlocking the Power of RDA
- COSWL Celebrates Women’s History Month
- Jessica Lorentz Smith receives YALSA’s Joann Sweetland Lum Memorial Grant
- Actionable guidance on serving patrons with disabilities
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