Intellectual Freedom News 10/19/2022
Highlights
- Kittery library adopts ‘Freedom to Read’ as U.S. book bans surge: ‘Essential to democracy’ | Seacoast Online
- Books Unbanned | African-American Policy Forum
Censorship
- Loudoun Co school board’s ‘sensitive and controversial’ topics policy doesn’t define terms | WJLA (VA)
- ‘Please, calm down’: School board meeting descends into chaos as protesters target LGBTQ books | USA Today (MI)
- Dearborn board returns to book policy after meeting halted Monday | Detroit News (MI)These are the 6 library books being reviewed by Dearborn Public Schools | Click on Detroit
- More than 600 Dearborn residents argued Thursday over whether LGBTQ books with sexual themes should be available to students | Bridge MI
- Conservative Muslims join forces with Christian right on Michigan book bans | Guardian (MI)
- ‘Standing up against censorship’: West Michigan libraries push back against book bans | WZZM (MI)
- Parents object to book about sexuality in Spring Lake school library | WOOD (MI)
- Parents say school board violated policy | CBS19 (VA)
- Fairfield Library decides to not remove controversial book | CT Insider
- Escambia High School students speak out against school book restrictions | WEAR (FL)
- Cabarrus County Schools debate who gets to initiate book removals | WCNC (NC)
- Elmbrook Schools to review policy on censored books | Wisconsin Examiner
- Conway school board passes bathroom ban, culls books with transgender themes | Arkansas Times
- Controversy over LGBTQ library books in Poway Unified | CBS8 (CA)
- GOP women hear status of K-12 schools, some express displeasure with return of ‘porn’ to libraries | St George News (UT)
- Escambia County school district in Florida restricts over 100 books prior to completing formal review | National Coalition Against Censorship (FL)
- Escambia school board works to fine tune book challenges and chart out Warrington’s future | Pensacola News Journal (FL)
- Nebraska lawmakers call for investigation into the Department of Education | KLKN (NE)
- Centralia Public Library board votes against restricting access to books | Centralia Fireside Guard (MO)
- Hundreds turn out for public comment at library board meeting, some seeking to have books removed, others decrying censorship | The Republic (IN)
- Granite Bay High School Site Council approves list of controversial materials | Fox40 (CA)
- Board of Ed candidate’s book-removal request spurs discussion of FCPS policy | Frederick News Post (VA)
- Sumner County debates banning book from schools | WKRN (TN)
- ORR has been asked to ban several books on gender, race issues. Here’s what we know. | South Coast Today (MA)
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- I turned my home into a fortress of surveillance | Atlantic
- The complicated danger of surveillance states | MIT Technology Review
- Tour Amazon’s dream home, where every appliance is also a spy | Washington Post
- ‘Make DMs Safe’ campaign pressing tech giants on encryption grows post-Roe | Washington Post
- The rise of ‘luxury surveillance’ | Atlantic
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- A Sin City murder, an arrest, and now a First Amendment showdown | Rolling Stone
- Muslims suing over watch-list status say U.S. tactics block scrutiny | Washington Post
- ‘Just cartoonishly vexatious’: First Amendment experts skewer Trump’s latest legal threat to the Pulitzer board | Law & Crime
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Biden’s internet promises in limbo amid long battle over FCC nominee | Washington Post
Legislation
- Jay Ashcroft, potential Missouri governor candidate, floats library book ban proposal | St. Louis Dispatch (MO)
- LGBTQ bill on child abuse creates uproar in Virginia and beyond | Washington Post
- Book battle continues in state legislature | Times Observer (PA)
- Rabb announces legislation to rein in book bans in Pa. | PA House
- An explosion of culture-war laws is changing schools. Here’s how. | Washington Post
Copyright
- NFTs as expressive works? Does the US First Amendment protect against trademark & copyright concerns | Law In Sport
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Sen. Ben Sasse’s candidacy to be U-Florida president draws protests | Washington Post
- Missouri attorney general’s probe of university emails criticized for ‘invading academic freedom’ | KCUR
Journalism & Media
- Lawmakers want more oversight on foreign government-sponsored broadcasts in the US | ABC Action News
Social Media
- What Kanye’s antisemitic posts may say about the future of social media | Washington Post
- Kanye West to buy Parler, joining the right-wing social media crowd | New York Times
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- Latina immigrants may be exposed to Spanish-language disinformation about abortion | NPR
- Conspiracy theorists, right-wing politicians fuel Nord Stream disinformation | CEPA
International
- Turkish opposition applies to annul disinformation law | Reuters
- A proposed Russian “LGBQT Propaganda” bill would ban work by Dostoevsky and Bulgakov. | The Hub
Around the Web
- WATCH: Experts warn ‘swatting’ hoaxes at U.S. schools appear coordinated | 74
- North Alabama drag show canceled after teacher’s story hour performance spurred threats | AL.com
- Furor over sexually explicit books misguided, says LGBTQ advocate and state house candidate | Cowboy State Daily
- When the national culture wars come to your school | Washington Post
- In New Ulm, culture wars at forefront in local school board election | Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
- School Library Journal, Children’s Book Council create poster to support LGBTQIA+ youth | School Library Journal
- Today’s book bans echo a panic against comic books in the 1950s | Washington Post
- Conservative PACs inject millions into local school races | ABC News
- Republicans fully embrace McCarthy-style book bans | Progressive Magazine
- This Liberty book club only reads the titles other parents want banned from schools | KCUR
- Poll finds sharp partisan divides over teaching LGBTQ issues | Washington Post
- The rise of book bans and the fall of uncensored education | Study Breaks
- Poll: Half of Americans know little about CRT, what’s actually taught in schools | The 74
- Masking, CRT among frustrations of group trying to unseat JCPS school board incumbents | WLKY
- In praise of scary things: Restricting kids’ access denies them a mode to process fear — editorial | School Library Journal
- Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘disturbing’ quest to radically rewrite the US constitution | The Guardian
ALA News
- Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) seeks nominations for the John Phillip Immroth Award
- Intellectual Freedom Round Table seeks nominations for the Eli M. Oboler Award
- A holistic perspective on intellectual freedom | ALA Editions
- 2023 RUSA Achievement Awards Nomination Period Opens
- ALA and Knology explore disability and accessibility in “Accessibility in Libraries: A Landscape Report”
- A beginner’s guide to school librarianship | ALA Editions
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