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The letter went out Friday to Berkshire DA Timothy Shugrue and Great Barrington Police Chief Paul Storti. The groups say they are digging into how all this unfolded.

Police called and search school for Gender Queer

Free speech advocates are slamming a police officer going to a Massachusetts middle school to search for a single book.On December 8, an anonymous caller contacted the police department in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to complain that an obscene book was available to eighth grade students at the W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School. An officer was sent to investigate.The book in question is Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. The memoir does contain sexually explicit illustrations and language, bu

The complaint reportedly alleged that the book, Gender Queer, contained obscene and pornographic material. The ACLU says they’ve never seen anything like this.

A teacher was blindsided when police showed up in her classroom to search for a book due to an obscenity complaint.

A cop's decision to sport a body camera and search a Massachusetts middle school for a book has raised serious concerns among civil liberties experts, a new

Students staged a walkout in protest.

Police received a complaint over the book, so an officer went to hunt it down.

ACLU wants body camera footage of encounter

ACLU wants body camera footage of encounter