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Last year, between January 1 and August 31, 2023, the American Library Association reported receiving 695 attempts to censor library materials and services for more than 1900 unique titles. That
As we recently reported, The Escambia County School District School Board currently has over 1,600 books off their book shelves and on a "challenged list"
A Florida Federal Court held that the First Amendment bars the removal of books from school libraries based on hostility to their ideas or viewpoint, and that book authors and book...
Jason Marz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging book bans in Escambia County, Florida, can move forward on the same day the county released an updated list of more than 2,800 individual books that have been pulled from shelves for review. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled on Wednesday that book publisher Penguin Random House, free expression PEN America, authors, and families of Escambia County had standing to pursue their claims under the First Amendment because those protections are implicated when officials remove books based on ideolog...
(NEW YORK) — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging book bans in Escambia County, Florida, can move forward on the same day the county released an updated list of more than 2,800 individual books that have been pulled from shelves for review. […]