The plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction against against HB 710, which forbids anyone under 18 from accessing library books that contain “sexual content,” regardless of the work's literary or educational merit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
The decision comes after state officials oversaw the creation of new rules governing library content in schools last year and demanded that the Edmond Public School district remove two books from high school library shelves over sexual content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge has blocked two key portions of an Iowa law that sought to ban books with sexual content from Iowa schools and to bar classroom discussion of gender identity and sexuality for students below the seventh grade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge is set to rule before the end of the year on two lawsuits seeking to block a controversial new Iowa law, SF 496, that would ban books with sexual content from Iowa classrooms and school libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House — along with the Iowa State Education Association, authors, students, and educators — is taking Iowa to court for its law against sexual content in books. The post Penguin Random House Sues the US State of Iowa appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-30 23:47:44 UTC ]
It certainly didn't take long for AI's other shoe to drop, what with the emergent technology already being perverted to commit confidence scams and generate spam content. We can now add censorship to that list as the Globe Gazette reports the school board of Mason City, Iowa has begun leveraging... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-08-14 20:25:41 UTC ]
Two petitions sought to block Barnes & Noble and independent booksellers from selling “Gender Queer” and “A Court of Mist and Fury” to minors in Virginia because of the books’ sexual content. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-31 19:12:46 UTC ]
The New York Public Library made four banned books available nationwide on SimplyE, its free-reader app. The titles include Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi and Catcher in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-04-13 23:48:05 UTC ]