Censorship

• Upset over LGBTQ books, a Michigan town defunds its library in tax vote | Bridge Michigan
• A school district was given LGBTQ-affirming kids’ books. Then parents objected | San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
• In wake of library board shake-up, book removal advocates appear emboldened | Flathead Beacon (MT)
• Florida school board rejects sex ed. textbook under pressure | Education Week
• Lafayette librarian keeps job after board members attempt to fire her over book display | Lafayette Daily Advertiser (LA)
  • Community members gathered in large numbers to support librarian facing termination | KLFY (LA)
• A battle over books | Webster-Kirkwood Times (MO)
• As efforts to ban books escalate, a new petition is filed against Sarasota’s school board | WUSF (FL)
• Harrison County Library Board to discuss censoring children’s books | WLOX (MS)
• Heid announcing opt-in policy for controversial books | Lakeland Now (FL)
• Antioch village officials reject calls to ban book about gender confusion; ‘It’s important to carry titles that widen our worldview’ | Chicago Tribune
• Central Bucks approves contentious library policy targeting ‘sexualized content’ in books amid community opposition | Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
  • Pennsylvania school district passes strict book banning policy | National Coalition Against Censorship
  • Central Bucks school board passes library book policy; community members say it’s a new kind of book ban | WHYY
  • ‘Educational censorship’: Central Bucks approves library policy some view as book ban | USA Today
• Naval Academy accused of teaching CRT, sued for records | Newsweek
• Florida school board member demands ‘disciplinary action’ over pornographic books in schools: ‘I’m disgusted’ | Fox News
• Tulsa Public Schools removes graphic books from library | AP (OK)
• JCPS board considers request to ban book | WFLP (KY)
  • JCPS parents push district to remove ‘Gender Queer’ from schools | WHAS (KY)
• Two Oklahoma school districts punished for violating CRT ban | KOKH
  • Okla. downgrades school district over complaint it shamed White people | Washington Post
• Local library directors left confused as Curry Board of Commissioners express transphobic opinions, request buffer between unsupervised children and books about puberty, sexual identity | Wild Rivers Outpost (OR)
  • Commissioners wade into library debate | Curry Pilot (OR)
• Miami school board reverses itself, approves sex ed textbook | San Diego Union-Tribune
• ‘Mama Bears’ sue Forsyth County Schools for censorship | Appen Media (GA)
• LGBTQ library books to remain despite residents’ complaints to council | Victoria Advocate (TX)
  • Victoria County sides with group that wants city library books removed | Victoria Advocate (TX)
• Auburn school board considering library book policy changes | Auburn Pub (NY)
• Downers Grove superintendent believes controversial book ‘belongs in our libraries’ | Dupage Policy Journal
• Madison County Schools removes 10 books from general library circulation. Here’s why. | Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
• Utah school district pulls 52 books after concerns and flagged another 32 for later review | Salt Lake City Tribune
• Prison officials remove ban on Attica book, except for 2 crucial pages | New York Times

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• Bills to boost kids’ online safety advance in Senate with bipartisan support | The Hill
• SFPD is seeking unfettered real-time access to San Francisco’s private surveillance cameras | CPO Magazine
• Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them | Wired
  • Letter to U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights on Discriminatory Effects of Online Monitoring of Students | Center for Democracy and Technology

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• Former Sullivan County teacher tests U.S. Supreme Court ruling on First Amendment in suit | Tennessee Lookout
• first Amendment protects the right to film cops, Federal court reaffirms | Forbes
• Judge rules RSU 22 violated First Amendment in banning parent from school property | Maine Wire
• ACLU statement on politicians pushing new abortion bans in Indiana and West Virginia | ACLU
• Baltimore legal experts question whether ‘squeegeeing’ is protected by First Amendment | Fox Baltimore
• Supreme Court is positioned to consider the future of the First Amendment online | JD Supra
• An ACLU suit contends Ohio is violating due process rights for abortion clinics | WOUB
• Using race in college admissions protected by First Amendment, groups say | Washington Post

Legislation

• Ohio’s ‘divisive subjects’ bill a dangerous drift toward censorship | Canton Repository
• Georgia educators hold rally for education; speak out against new restrictive laws | Atlanta Daily World
• Senate panel turns to kids’ online safety | The Hill
• Draft version of SC abortion bill raises concern among First Amendment experts | WFAE

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• Democrats seek to codify net neutrality as fifth FCC commissioner hangs | Broadband Breakfast

Access

• Grant to expand jail’s literary programs, ‘opening up a new world’ for Greenfield inmates | Greenfield Recorder
• States’ fight over abortion information catches tech in crossfire | Axios

Social Media

• Dozens of states are jumping on the social media censorship bandwagon | Gizmodo
• Twitter said governments are requesting social media user information to censor content | Tech Outlook
• Trump’s purported free speech social media platform Truth Social is hiding user posts, threatening to create a ‘curated echo chamber,’ research group finds | Business Insider

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• 2020 election deniers seek out powerful allies: County sheriffs | New York Times
• 1A Remaking America: Election disinformation goes grassroots | NPR
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets monkeypox disinformation | Advocate
• Democrats’ drug-pricing plan warrants disinformation flag for seniors | The Hill
• QAnon candidates aren’t thriving, but some of their ideas are | New York Times
• Ad-tech watchdog looks to dismantle disinformation economy — by targeting ads on Fox News | CBC
• Anti-vax Twitter accounts pushing food crisis misinformation, study finds | Guardian
• Misinformation and disinformation worry Congress | Government Technology

International News

• Russia is quietly ramping up its internet censorship machine | WIRED
• Anti-gay protesters wave rainbow swastikas at Richman drag queen storytime | Richmond News
• Police called as protesters storm children’s story hour hosted by drag queen at local library | Independent

Around the Web

• The right in the US has a new bogeyman: Libraries | Guardian
• Bedrock, USA: New Podcast Explores Rise of Extremism in Local Politics | Bloomberg CityLab
• Column: Book-banning is on the rise, as part of the far-right’s assault on democracy | Los Angeles Times
• The spread of book banning | New York Times
• Arrests made as white supremacist group marches during drag queen story hour in Boston | WCVB (MA)
• Op-Ed–The new political catchphrase: ‘parents’ rights’ | CT News Junkie
• Austin Public Library’s Banned Camp stands up to Texas’ growing book bans | My San Antonio
• Texans flock to Austin to debate CRT, other social studies lessons with board of education | Houston Chronicle
• The impending miseducation of Florida’s schoolchildren | Florida Phoenix
• Is Alan Dershowitz being canceled on Martha’s Vineyard? | Boston Globe
• Is it worse to ban a book, or never to publish it? | Atlantic
• What the US can learn from apartheid-era book bans in South Africa | Conversation
• ImagineIF staff honored for response to challenged books | Daily Inter Lake (MT)
• Educators fight back against gag orders, book bans, and intimidation | NEA
• Critical race theory’s merchants of doubt | TIME
• Two Okla. Districts Get Downgraded Accreditations for Violating State’s Anti-CRT Law | Education Week

ALA News

• ALA Editions Special Report examines Black and African Americans’ experiences in libraries
• ACRL 2023 keynote speakers announced
• Outcome-based planning and evaluation for youth services
• Senate FY 2023 Appropriations Bill Would Provide First Funding for Library Facilities in Decade
• Registration and housing now open for Core Forum 2022

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