Intellectual Freedom News
Intellectual Freedom News
May 5, 2016
Office for Intellectual Freedom
- Webinar: Intellectual Freedom and Minors May 26, 1:00pm CST
- NEW Library Privacy Guidelines for Students in K-12 Schools
- Choose Privacy Week May 1-7, 2016 (Has your library or school planned a Choose Privacy Week event? Please share the details by emailing oif@ala.org and we will add it to our listing of 2016 Choose Privacy Week events.)
Censorship
- This One Summer; Minnesota; This One Summer Banned in Henning, MN | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- UPDATE Looking for Alaska; Kentucky. RETAINED! Freedom to Read at Marion High School | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Black Connecticut Residents Say City Hall Mural is ‘Racist,’ Demand Removal of Painting | Atlanta Blackstar
- India’s Struggle for Independence; India; Delhi University drops controversial book
- The Black Dog Gang; Australia; Racy book taught to year six students in South West WA pulled from curriculum | WAToday
- Alabama; Mother outraged, claiming teacher showed inappropriate picture to students | WBRC Fox 6 News
- German orchestra accuses Turkey of trying to censor ‘Armenian genocide’ performance | The Independent
- University of Washington removes cheerleader infographic after outcry | Fox News
- Michigan Substitute Teacher Fired for O’Keeffe Lesson | CBLDF
- Children’s Books and Censorship | Tablet Magazine “Can we live in a free and open society while also protecting kids from ideas that offend us?”
- New Jersey; Art or sacrilege? Rutgers removes controversial dartboard Jesus art exhibit
- Two environmental/political background pieces about the treatment of a transgender child in Minnesota. Both “My Princess Boy” and “I am Jazz” were challenged for use in the classroom in support of anti-bullying lessons.
Legislation
- HR 699: Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House | Reuters
- HR 699: Library leader calls on Senate to pass privacy reform with “real meaning for real people” as House takes historic ECPA vote | ALA News
- Louisiana HB 153; Louisiana Judge Blocks Online Age-Verification Law | Publisher’s Weekly
- Maryland SB 764; Maryland New Voices press freedom bill signed into law | Student Press Law Center
- Tennessee HB 2248; State’s Anti-Free Speech Bill Is Close To Becoming Law | Huffington Post
- Utah SCR9; Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs resolution calling porn a ‘health hazard’ | CNN
- Utah SCR9; Op-ed: S.L. County libraries respect First Amendment, but they don’t let patrons view porn | Salt Lake Tribune
Filtering
- Minnesota High School Censors and Blocks Students’ Emails That Have the Word ‘Gay’ | The New Civil Rights Movement
- How Internet Filtering Hurts Kids | The Atlantic “Zealously blocking their access to certain websites can end up undermining learning.”
- Some Sioux Falls students upset about Internet filter | The Washington Times “Students denied access to LGBT resource websites”
- New research maps the extent of web filtering in UK public libraries | CILIP Blog
Privacy
- U.S. spy court rejected zero surveillance orders in 2015 | Reuters
- Requests for data rise sharply under secretive U.S. surveillance orders | Reuters
- Police Can Force You to Use Your Fingerprint to Unlock Your Phone | The Atlantic
- Google turns on HTTPS for all Blogspot blogs | PC World
- Surveillance Cameras in Public Bathrooms Spark Controversy | Campus Safety Magazine
- New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship | The Intercept (See the original paper: Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use | Berkeley Technology Law Journal )
- Why Activists Today Should Still Care About the 40-Year-Old Church Committee Report | In These Times
- Measuring Library Vendor Cyber Security: Seven Easy Questions Every Librarian Can Ask | Code4Lib
Around the Web
- Justice Department challenges NC transgender law | CNN (March 29 Press Release from ALA on HB 2)
- On the Ethics of Social Network Research in Libraries | Journal of Information,Communication, and Ethics in Society
- Rep. Speier Reads Children’s Book about Transgender Youth on House Floor | CNS News
- B.C. introduces law to prevent criminals from making money from their crimes | NewsKamloops; “He said criminals cannot be banned from telling their stories due to constitutional reasons, but the law would prevent them from gaining financially from their stories.”
- Librarian from the past battles censorship | Ottumwa Courier “It was during his time as director that Spaulding’s impact came to life in the form of the “Library Bill of Rights.”
- Opinion/Editorial: On campus, free speech is essential | Daily Progress
- Editorial: Ban at your own risk | The Brown and White
- Texas is using “Of Mice and Men” to justify executing this man. Seriously. | Salon
- Survey: Editors see media losing ground as legal advocate for 1st Amendment | Columbia Journalism Review
- Federal Appeals Court Rejects Religious Challenge to Kansas Science Standards | Education Week
- As the Religious Right Forces the Gospel Into Public Schools, Some Parents Are Opting to Homeschool | The Nation
ALA News
- Virtual Membership Meeting (VMM16) Thursday, June 2 from 1:30-2:30 pm (CST)
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