Red States Threaten Librarians With Prison

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 3:01am

Washington Post: “The bill in Connecticut, pending before an education committee, is one of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians — the first such wave in the country… Legislators in 22 mostly blue states have proposed 57 such bills so far this year.” “But the library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly red states that aim to restrict which books libraries can offer and threaten librarians with prison or thousands in fines for handing out ‘obscene’ or ‘harmful’ titles.

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