Intellectual Freedom News 7/8/2022
Highlights
Censorship
- Signature-gathering to begin soon for initiative to defund Ketchikan’s library over drag queen event | KRBD Community Radio (AK)
- From COVID to censorship: How a right-wing book ban took hold in Bucks County | WHYY
- Banned books: School board blocks book about WWII Japanese Americans | Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (WI)
- When parents feel shut out of decision-making by school boards, petitions and lawsuits follow | Journal Times (WI)
- The Proud Boys are waging war on Pride Month. Drag Queen Story Hours for children are a big, sparkly target | Business Insider
- Book will not be part of any curriculum at CFAUSD | WEAU (WI)
- Utah State Board of Education still trying to thread the needle on book ban law guidance | KUER Public Radio (UT)
- Interest surges in a children’s RuPaul biography after Colchester’s first selectman warned of ‘provocative drawings’ | Connecticut Public Radio
- Parents sue Ohio district for banning ‘anti-racism’ curriculum | Revolt
- With rising book bans, librarians have come under attack | New York Times
- ACLU of Idaho filed public records request to Nampa School District after book ban | NPR
- From COVID to censorship: How a right-wing book ban took hold in Bucks County | WHYY (PA)
- Guest opinion: Protect our library: Culture wars come to Sanibel | News-Press (FL)
- Library board hears concerns about children accessing sexually explicit books | Abilene Reporter News (TX)
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women | Washington Post
- Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe US | MIT Technology Review
- US publisher Macmillan confirms cyberattack forced systems offline | TechCrunch
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- With sweep and speed, Supreme Court’s conservatives ignite a new era | Washington Post
- Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy | National Constitution Center
- Texas lunges into the center of battles over personal freedom | Washington Post
- The House Oversight and Reform Committee is stated to hold a hearing July 13 on the impact of the Supreme Court’s June 24 reversal of Roe v. Wade will have in the U.S. | Hill
- Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law has started and it’s already grim | Q News
- Va., Md. leaders: Supreme Court justice safety request raises First Amendment concerns | WTOP
- Free-speech groups, book world fight back in Virginia obscenity case | Virginia Mercury
- ACLU of Texas warns against unlawful order by Gov. Abbott | ACLU
- Does religious freedom protect a right to an abortion? One rabbi’s mission to find out | Time
- How Drag Queens are Fighting Queer Censorship | The Progressive
Legislation
- Battles continue as Florida’s race instruction law takes effect | WFSU News
- ‘Stop WOKE’ court battle rages on as law takes effect | Orlando Sentinel
- In trainings, Florida tells teachers that religion belongs in public life | Washington Post
- Laws targeting free speech about abortion would put journalists at risk | PRISM
- For West Virginia’s libraries, a proposed constitutional amendment could mean yet another budget cut | Register-Herald
Access
- Why San Francisco Castro District residents want library to turn WiFi off at night | ABC7 San Francisco
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- The red state university blues | Chronicle of Higher Education
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- Gender and power in an age of disinformation: A conversation with Mary Anne Franks | Council on Foreign Relations
- The Westerners helping Putin’s propaganda war on Ukraine | CBC
- The Grassroots Efforts To Spread Election Conspiracies | NPR
International News
Around the Web
- Commentary: Summer reading as an act of resistance | Culpepper Star-Exponent (VA)
- TR Library looks to update controversial materials policy | Three Rivers News (MI)
- Stop banning critical books in Wisconsin, elsewhere | Madison.com (WI)
- How, in 2022, are we still having debate over book bans? | Bristol Herald Courier (TN)
- David McGrath: I feel imprisoned in Ron DeSantis’ Florida on the Fourth of July | Chicago Tribune
- Who controls what books you can read? | Reason
- Why local officials are facing growing harassment and threats | Bloomberg CityLab
- A group of Texas educators proposed using the term ‘involuntary relocation’ to describe people sold into slavery in K-2 curriculum | CNN
- Drag queen storytimes come to southern Illinois libraries | Belleville News-Democrat
- Red Bank library program champions diversity despite protests | Two River Times (NJ)
ALA News
eLearning
- PLA | Libraries as Climate Resilience Hubs: Working with Your Community to Take Action
- ACRL | Ethical Engagement in Learning Analytics: Lessons Learned by Campus Colleagues
- United | Gift Acceptance Policies through a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lens
- GNCRT | Be Prepared! The GNCRT Guide to Addressing Comic Book Bans, Censorship, and Challenges
- More eLearning opportunites
Publishing
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