This Week in Book Challenges
Printer-friendly versionHere is an update on the latest book challenges for the weeks of April 3, 2024 and April 10, 2024.
- Ada, ID Community Library returns books to shelves after banning them in illegal secret meeting
- Bay District Schools, FL establishes new book ban procedures based on false “pornography” narrative
- Bermudian Springs, PA considers policy to conduct needless review, possibly ban “borderline” books
- Buncombe County, NC has its first challenges, targeting a sex ed book and Jodi Picoult, among others
- Carroll, MD public school bans two more books
- Collier County, FL sees ideological challenges to textbooks mentioning climate change, modern economics
- Faribault, MN school board reacts to misinformation about “porn” in libraries with book ban policy
- Fort Bend ISD, TX weighs restrictive book ban policy amid parents' objections
- Knox County, TN, no longer waiting for complaints to consider book bans, forms proactive committees to review “sensitive titles”
- Mat.-Su., AK school district’s removal of books pending review contested before a federal judge
- New Hampshire Senate passes book ban bill, sends to house
- Phillips Public Library, WI faces threats of funding cuts after book banners revolt
- Pine Richland, PA follows book review procedure in full, correctly retains all challenged books
- Upper Adams SD, PA parents rally against censorship in proposed policy