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The Autauga-Prattville Public Library’s future turned on a Feb. 8 meeting of its board of trustees. New board members appointed following a mass resignation late last year, most of whom were appointed by county commissioners, wasted little time in refashioning the library in their image — one that suited Clean Up Alabama, a group that […] The post What federal courts have said about local library book bans appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

Dozens of schools across the NYC area are closed Tuesday as a snow storm slams the Tri-State. Track them live here.

Book bans are often argued to be an infringement of First Amendment rights, but are they also a violation of civil rights? When it comes to the case of Granbury (TX) ISD, the ACLU of Texas says yes and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is looking into it. 

As a lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union in 1982, Miami Beach resident Alan Levine successfully argued against censorship in Pico v. Island Trees School District, the only case in which the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a school board’s decision to remove books from a school library because of the ideas that they expressed. Today, he sees something familiar in the frenzy of book and course subject banning.