Censorship

• Some states are changing the laws that govern community libraries | NPR
• Roanoke County School leaders approve new book review policy | WSLS (VA)
• ‘Gender Queer’ novel’s inclusion on reading list sparks debate at Barrington school district | Daily Herald (IL)
• A parent accused Oconomowoc schools of teaching age-inappropriate material. The district threatened a defamation lawsuit. | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
• Lafayette community, library leaders debate ban of book displays that highlight diversity | Daily Advertiser (LA)
• Campaign to remove LGBTQ+ books from public libraries reaches Sonoma County | Press-Democrat (CA)
• Forest Hills meeting ends with resolution against critical race theory | Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
  • Forest Hills School District could face legal action over ban on anti-racism teachings | WVXU (OH)
  • Backlash in Forest Hills: ‘We will not sit idly by while you… destroy this school.’ | Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
• Library restores Pride Month displays in children’s rooms | AP (NY)
• LGBTQ display at Jackson Madison County Library leads to controversy | Jackson Sun (TN)
• Man with gun turned children’s reading book event to chaos in Sparks Library | News4 (NV)
  • Sparks, Nevada drag queen story hour disrupted by armed Proud Boy | Los Angeles Blade
• Walker County mother concerned about school libraries | Times Free Press (GA)
• Tri-City school board will ‘take a stand’ on CRT. But will board policy have any impact? | Tri-City Herald (WA)
• Library facing questions about removal of Juneteenth display | Commonwealth Journal (KY)
• Book removed from DeWitt kiosks | Clinton Herald (IA)
• Pride Month display taken down after complaints at Forest Library | WSET (VA)
• Union county officials cancel library’s participation in pride festival | WSOC (NC)
• Portsmouth public library hears citizen complaints, support of Pride Month display | Portsmouth Daily Times (OH)
  • Portsmouth Public Library Stirs Up Controversy Among Parents | Scioto County Daily News
• Jennings library removes Pride Month items | Tribune (IN)
• Pride displays taken down at Greenville library; groups seeks change | Greenville Online (SC)
• Colchester First Selectman pulls book from library, sparks controversy | WFSB (CT)
  • Book on RuPaul pulled from display at Colchester public library after first selectman fields complaint from parent | Hartford Courant (CT)
• Reversing course after shakeup, San Francisco school board votes to keep controversial George Washington murals on view | Art Newspaper (CA)
• School board considers changes in the way book selections, objections are handled | Daily Reflector (NC)
• Crook County Schools adopts new reading curriculum | Central Oregonian
• Medford superintendent, deputy approved ban of graphic novel | Yahoo! News
• Challenger: I’m not trying to ban books but these are not appropriate; review will extend into next school year | Hickory Daily Record (NC)
• Three women appeal decision to keep controversial book on Dirigo High School’s library shelves | Sun Journal (ME)
• Kent School Board votes against banning book featuring LGBTQ+ content | King5 (WA)
• Texas parents face down Proud Boys at library Pride event | Real News Network
• Proud Boys disrupt Pride event at Wilmington library | WRAL (NC)
  • Proud Boys, other demonstrators disrupt children’s Pride Storytime | Port City Daily (NC)
• GISD looking at proposed change in library materials policy | Herald Banner (TX)
• LGBTQ+ advocacy group seeks change after Greenville library took down Pride displays | Greenville News (SC)
• Chippewa Falls school board decides not to ban book but require parental permission before students may be assigned it | Chippewa Herald (WI)
• ‘America First’ proponents attack LCPS with new lawsuit challenging district’s inclusion and equity policies | Loudoun Now (VA)
  • Loudoun County Public Schools hit with lawsuit for ‘moral corruption of children,’ parental ‘violations’ | Fox News (VA)
• Anatomy of a book banning | Washington Post
• Nampa School District discusses process for books and materials | KTVB.com (ID)

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• Explainer: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision | ABC News
• Our Data Is a Curse, With or Without Roe | New York Times
• This is the impact of a malware intrusion on Bellingham, Whatcom library services | Bellingham Herald (WA)
• California’s attempt to protect kids online could end adults’ internet anonymity | Register

More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protection for abortion | Washington Post
  • ‘Roe v. Wade’ overturned: These are the states where abortion is now effectively banned | Fast Company
  • ‘Roe’ ruling could jeopardize other civil liberties, AG says | Crosscut
  • A warning for judges, state officials from the Department of Homeland Security | WINK
  • Abortion and birth control restrictions curtail women’s citizenship | Washington Post
  • Planned Parenthood, ACLU sue over Utah abortion ban | AP
  • Providers argue Florida’s privacy measure protects abortion | NBC News
  • Why we use inclusive language to talk about abortion | ACLU
  • First Amendment confrontation may loom in post-Roe fight | New York Times
  • End of Roe Threatens Gay Marriage, Birth Control Access: The 14th Amendment, Explained |NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
• Florida court will block 15-week abortion ban | ACLU
• Kentucky court blocks abortion bans | ACLU
• Boycotts aren’t protected speech, rules appeals court | Reason
• Supreme Court further erodes separation between church and state in case of praying football coach | CNN
  • The First Amendment’s establishment clause doesn’t suspend free speech and free exercise rights, Supreme Court rules | Education Next
  • Trumpists call on Supreme Court to let states ‘establish religion within their borders’ | Rolling Stone
• Miranda Rights endure despite US Supreme Court ruling | Voice of America
• It’s 2022 and two books are on trial for ‘obscenity’ | ACLU
• Supreme Court allows Biden administration to end ‘Remain in Mexico’: American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says Biden should move swiftly | Mass Live
• SCOTUS just quietly slashed your Sixth Amendment rights | Hill
• Happy 25th anniversary to the Supreme Court decision that shaped the internet we have today | Slate

Legislation

• Arizona teachers won’t face new limits on teaching race, ethnicity next year | Tucson.com
• Divided Pa. Senate panel advances 2 bills limiting sexual content in public schools | Penn Live
  • SB 1277 — Inviting censorship of educational and library resources | ACLU (PA)
  • Pa. Senate passes so-called ‘don’t say gay’ bill and votes to have schools notify parents about sexually explicit library books | Morning Call (PA)
• How LGBTQ voices are being erased in classrooms | ACLU
• Freedom to Read fight continues as Florida library media specialists face summer of fear and unknowns | School Library Journal
• College CRT ban becoming law | South Dakota State News
• What’s the Political Strategy of DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill? | The New Yorker
• ‘No one felt safe’: Florida schools, students feel effects of so-called ‘Don’t say gay’ law | Tallahassee Democrat
• Teachers voice concerns after Orange County previews ‘Don’t Say Gay’ impact to classrooms | WFTV
• Leon County schools LGBTQ guide approved over heated comments | Tallahassee Democrat
• New legislation could mean changes for public libraries | Lex18 (KY)

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• ISP throttling: This could be why your home Internet is so slow | CNET
• Supreme Court poised to deal a blow to Biden’s tech regulators, too | Washington Post
  • Supreme Court decision to complicate FCC, FTC rulemaking processes, experts say | S&P Global

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Student petition to fire Clarence Thomas rejected by George Washington University | Insight into Diversity

Journalism

• Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark First Amendment decision, leaving higher bar for libel in place | CNN

Social Media

• Meta made millions in ads from networks of fake accounts | WIRED
• How online censorship harms sex workers and LGBTQ communities | ACLU
• Censorship of marginalized voices on social media is as old as social media itself | Input
• Section 230 is a last line of defense for abortion speech online | WIRED

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• Divisions over Kansas K-12 education spawn misinformation and anxiety at Overland Park forum | Kansas Reflector
• I watched hundreds of flat-earth videos to learn how conspiracy theories spread — and what it could mean for fighting disinformation | Conversation

Copyright

• Marking A Win for Free Expression Online, Copyright Office Finds that New Forms of Copyright Would Not Benefit Journalism | Public Knowledge

International News

• ‘An invisible cage’: How China is policing the future | New York Times
• Libraries in Canada hit by wave of hate, threats, as right-wing groups protest all-age drag events | CBC
• Chinese censors scrub internet after senior party official gives speech on timeline of zero-Covid in Beijing | CNN

Around the Web

• How libraries came to be sanctuaries for LGBTQ kids | The 74
• Freedom to Read is Essential for our Democracy | CT Examiner
• He took his school to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s for pulling ‘objectionable’ books. Here’s his message to young people | CTV News
• LGBTQ books are being banned from schools. Here’s how kids can still read them. | USA Today
• Two directors quit Vinton library after complaints about hirings, LGBTQ and Biden books | Gazette (IA)
• Little fuss this year over Orem displays of LGBTQ allyship | Daily Herald (UT)
• Group to hold presentation on ‘critical race theory’ | Minot Daily News (ND)
• Chattanooga activist group started a national movement for students’ rights | Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
• I read the 5 most challenged and banned LGBTQ+ books of last year — here’s what I thought | BuzzFeed
• After the spotlight: How a book ban fight changed one Pa. community | WHYY
• Mayor Nirenberg joins library director to speak about protecting access to library collections | KENS5 (TX)
• Safe-space clubs for LGBTQ students increasingly targeted by right-wing activists | Raw Story
• LI student won battle against book ban — 40 years ago | Newsday (NY)
• Commentary: Republicans are banning books about historical truths their own leaders have apologized for | Rome News-Tribune
• Are Schools Too Inclusive? Some People Think So (Opinion) | Education Week

ALA News

• ALA Condemns Threats of Violence in Libraries
• ALA Nominating Committee seeks candidates for 2023 election
• Core Members Now Have Free Access to OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services Sandbox
• ALA Annual Conference Advisory
• IMLS and FCC Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Help Close Digital Divid

eLearning

• New from ACRL – “3D Data Creation to Curation: Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation”
• More eLearning opportunites

Publishing

• New research examines school librarian assistance with one-to-one laptop programs and participants’ perceptions
• ALA Graphics Catalog

Awards & Grants

• Roselle Public Library District and Seward County Community College Library announced as recipients of GameRT’s 2022 Game On! Grant

More ALA News

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