Intellectual Freedom News 7/26/2024
Highlights
- Registration open for “Intellectual Freedom in Libraries” a course collaboartion of FTRF and Emporia | Freedom to Read Foundation
- Sam Helmick chosen 2024-2025 American Library Association president-elect | ALA
- Rally for the Right to Read: 2024 | ALA
- A Good Way for ALA | American Libraries
Censorship
- First review set for new borough library panel tasked with examining challenged books | Mat-Su Sentinel (AK)
- Lodi Unified dissolves controversial book review committee | Stocktonia (CA)
- Francis Howell school board considers updated book policies | FOX2 (MO)
- No ‘Harry Potter’? Librarians say Francis Howell proposals could remove popular books | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
- Editorial: Francis Howell School Board should focus on education, not library censorship | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
- Want to ban books? Durango Public Library just made it tougher | Durango Herald (CO)
- National Coalition Against Censorship launches map tracking art censorship since October 7th | NCAC
- Conservative Wisconsin law firm strengthening ties with local school boards | Wisconsin Public Radio (WI)
- A Florida school district banned ‘Ban This Book.’ Author says that’s ‘erasure of the highest order’ and wants it reinstated | CNN (FL)
- Plaintiffs say new Prattville Library policies remain unconstitutional | Alabama Political Reporter (AL)
- Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas | NBC News (TX)
- Eastern Idaho librarians implement a variety of methods to comply with new library law | East Idaho News (ID)
- North Idaho library network declines to change policy on kids accessing materials | KXLY (ID)
- Alpena County moves to fire library officials over sexually-themed youth books | Bridge Michigan (MI)
- Library Board Members Can Sue Over Post-LGBTQ Support Firings | Bloomberg Law (LA)
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Schumer to bring kids’ online safety bills to vote this week | Hill
- Maryland Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Law, Joining the Swelling State Ranks | National Law Review (MD)
- FTC orders 8 companies to provide information on ‘surveillance pricing’ practices | AP
First Amendment & Civil Rights
- Ten Commandments won’t go in Louisiana classrooms until at least November as lawsuit plays out | WDSU (LA)
- Court OKs Florida school board to interrogate 7-year-old student in book ban litigation | Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
- Florida 7-year-old compelled to testify in book ban lawsuit | Politico (FL)
- Mom didn’t want 7-year-old testifying in Florida book ban case. Judge says she must | Miami Herald (FL)
- Another book ban battle emerges in Florida, with high stakes for the First Amendment | Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
- Our First Amendment Rights Don’t Disappear at the Schoolhouse Gates | ACLU
- Judge denies Moms for Liberty request to block federal LGBTQ school protections in 850+ counties | Law Dork
- Shield denied in Escambia book lawsuit | WUWF (FL)
- Iowa’s ban on abortions after 6 weeks will go into effect next week | NBC News (IA)
- ACLU of Texas finds more than 50 school districts remain in violation of the CROWN Act | ACLU (TX)
- The First Circuit Court of Appeals Finds A Public School Teacher’s Social Media Posts Are Not Constitutionally-Protected Speech | JD Supra
Academic Freedom & Student Speech
- Five ways anti-diversity laws affect LGBTQ+ people and research | University World News
- Offering AP African American Studies in Georgia Just Got Complicated | Education Week (GA)
- AP African-American studies will return to Georgia’s Public Schools | Atlanta Voice (GA)
Legislation
- GLAD and ACLU-NH Denounce Harmful Bills Targeting LGBTQ+ Youth Signed by Governor Sununu | GLAD (NH)
State & Local Governance
Social Media
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- FCC: Supreme Court Precedents Protect Net Neutrality Rules | Broadband Breakfast
- How the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could doom net neutrality | Verge
Disinformation & Media Literacy
- Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss | Washington Post
International
- The State Library of Victoria controversy shows what can happen when institutions cling to ‘neutrality’ | Conversation (Australia)
- Influx of anti-drag ‘grooming’ emails preceded N.B.’s pronoun policy review, documents reveal | CBC News (Canada)
- Drag storytime performer answers questions raised in emails to government | CBC News (Canada)
Around the Web
- Opinion Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. | Washington Post
- Students fight book bans during National Day of Social Action | Get Uplifted | WUSA9
- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a champion of civil rights and progressive causes, dies | Houston Public Media
- Soft Fourth Quarter Foils Scholastic’s Fiscal 2024 Hopes | Publishers Weekly
- The Cofounder of Guernica on Free Speech and the Retraction of the Israel-Gaza Essay | LitHub
- The Republicans’ Project 2025 is disastrous for books. | Literary Hub
- S.F. monument of Maya Angelou, at center of City Hall controversy, will finally be revealed | San Francisco Chronicle
ALA News
- Sarah Smith Selected as the 2024 Christopher Hoy/ERT Scholarship Recipient
- New from ACRL – Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations
- Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries
- Ana Soledad Santoyo Selected as the 2024 Julia J. Brody Public Librarian Scholarship Recipient
- Aram Public Library receives 2024 Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Award
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