This Week in Book Challenges
Here is an update on the latest book challenges for the weeks of July 11, 2024.
- Alabama bill threatening librarians with arrest, avoided in 2024, already refiled for 2025
- Florida bill would limit non-guardians to one challenge per month in schools
- Florida removes climate change references in science textbook
- Georgia lawsuit against anti-LGBTQ+ book bans adds student and youth group plaintiffs
- Katy ISD, TX banned 5 books since April
- Knox County Schools, TN to consider new policy following implementation of book ban law today (7/11)
- Llano County, TX decision in 5th circuit, which saw books returned to shelves, to be reviewed by same court
- Menomonee Falls, WI approves openly LGBTQ+-phobic book ban
- Osseo School Board, MN votes to keep “What Girls Are Made Of”
- Rio Grande Valley, TX school district targets 676 books for bans
- Sunol Glen USD, CA school board members recalled in special election after banning Pride flag. (Alternate headline: Sunol Glen USD board members f**k around, find out)
- Tennessee book ban law went into effect as of July 1