This Week in Book Challenges
Printer-friendly versionHere is an update on the latest book challenges for the weeks of July 17 and July 24, 2024.
- Alabama Public Library Service caves to book banners, ignoring ALA and others
- Alpena, MI library board faces firing and library funding targeted amid misinformation
- Clancy Elementary School, MT refuses transphobic book challenge, stoking more transphobia
- Durango Public Library, CO passes common-sense reforms against book banning
- Florida receives permission to depose a 7-year-old child against mother’s wishes while claiming to ::checks notes:: "protect children”
- Granbury, TX cop wastes months, untold taxpayer dollars disrupting the lives of librarians who did nothing wrong
- Grand Forks Public Library, ND sequesters puberty books in new section
- Idaho libraries begin updating policies to accord with draconian new book ban law
- Indian River County, FL school board bans book about book bans; author wants it returned
- Knox County Schools updates policies to accord with draconian new book ban law
- Lodi USD, CA dissolves problematic book review committee, but concerns remain
- Maricopa, AZ sees call for restrictions on LGBTQ+ books
- O'Fallon, MO school district alters, delays proposal centralizing book selection with school board
- South Carolina’s sweeping new book ban regulations cause widespread confusion in school book buying, demonstrating chilling effect