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July 15, 2022 - Collated by OIF Staff and News Editor on the Intellectual Freedom Blog

Censorship

• Sarasota County school board sued over 'obscene' library materials | WWSB (FL)
  • Man seeks court order to remove 'sexually explicit' books from schools | Patch (FL)
• Parents' Choice TN files lawsuit challenging curriculum, says law against teaching CRT | WZTV
• Oklahoma governor calls for public schools audit for potential mishandling of public funds and teaching CRT | CNN
• Amid Colchester book controversy, review of all children's material paused | NBC Connecticut
• Group demands books in Coventry Pride display be burned | Journal Inquirer (CT)
  • Burn LGBTQ+ books for children, group of mothers demands local library | Yahoo! News
• Florida atheist petitions to ban the Bible in Miami-Dade and Broward schools | Miami New Times
• Court upholds Arizona prisons' ban on explicit materials for inmates | Cronkite News
• NHCSO investigated schools for 'obscene and pornographic' books, DA found no unlawful content | WHQR Wilmington
• Display books trigger review of Sanibel library's protocols | Sanibel Island Reporter (FL)
• Independence parents divided on school board banning book over a nonbinary character | KCUR Public Radio (MO)
  • Angry parents pack meeting to sound off after Independence schools ban library book | Kansas City Star (MO)
• Parents discuss banning books at Madison School Board meeting | Clarion Ledger (MS)
• 'A slippery slope': Residents defend Dixon library following push to remove LGBTQ comics depicting sex acts | Sauk Valley News (IL)
• Bedford County library addresses concerns following protests over Pride display | WSLS (VA)
  • Treatment of recent Bedford County library display prompts comments to supervisors | News and Advance (VA)
• Some parents want controversial 'Gender Queer' removed from Barrington High School library | Daily Herald (IL)
• Movement to ban books reaches Wisconsin schools, libraries | WBAY
• Fauquier County parents clash over book censorship | Fauquier Now (VA)
  • Fauquier County parents want books removed from school over content | WUSA9
  • Some parents want Kettle Run library to remove 3 books they see as pornographic, violent | Fauquier Times
  • LETTER: Call it what it is: Censorship | Fauquier Times
• Video of Clay County father challenging contents of school book makes national headlines | News4Jax (FL)
• Pulitzer Prize-winning book on prison uprisings banned in New York prisons | Reason
• ACLU of Ohio alleges Buckeye Valley Local Schools violated a Columbus author's First Amendment right | Ideastream Public Media
• San Francisco Public Library accused of censorship, Islamophobia over mural project | CBS News
• Large crowd speaks out against books they call pornographic at Ashland Public Library | Ashland Source (OH)
  • 200 pack Ashland Public Library seeking removal of health books they see as pornographic | Ashland Times-Gazette
• Schools Put New Book Removal Procedures On Hold | The Pilot (NC)
• Dickinson County Library's book collection questioned during board meeting | TV6 (MI)

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• In a post-Roe world, the future of digital privacy looks even grimmer | New York Times
  • Privacy advocates fear Google will be used to prosecute abortion seekers | Georgia Public Broadcasting
• Newspaper editor appeals court ruling that protects the privacy of people who want library books banned or reclassified | Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
• Lawmakers warn end of Roe v. Wade poses threat to biometric data privacy | FindBiometrics

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• First Amendment advocates respond to a new Arizona law limiting recording of police | NPR
• 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees Kansas, rules that people have a First Amendment right to film police | Lawrence Journal-World
• The most uncomfortable secret lingering under the corporate reaction to Roe's reversal | Fast Company
• Is it legal to travel for abortion after Dobbs? | Bloomberg Law
• The new threat to good schooling for minority Americans | Washington Post
• A lawsuit against race-based teaching in Florida can proceed | WUSF
• Satanic Temple to sue Pennsylvania school district over rejection of 'After School Satan Club' | Daily Beast
• What happens when laws that suppress protests clash with our freedoms? | Virginia Mercury
• Without Obergefell, most states would have same-sex marriage bans | Pew Stateline
• ACLU files lawsuit against ICE for withholding documents related to practice of releasing people from custody prior to imminent death | ACLU

Legislation

• 10 anti-LGBTQ laws just went into effect. They all target schools | Washington Post

Access

• Court upholds Arizona prison ban on sexual, explicit content | News Times
• Publisher's lawsuit seeks to take down Internet Archive's digital lending library | World Socialist Web Site
• Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book war | Protocol

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Florida tries to shield Corcoran in 'intellectual freedom' case | Tampa Bay Times
• Florida university removes some anti-racism statements, worrying faculty | Washington Post

Journalism

• Sarasota Herald-Tribune deletes op-ed by Proud Boy wife after backlash -- but doesn't address major conflict | Mediaite

Social Media

• Klobuchar, Warren press Meta on 'censoring' of abortion posts | Axios
• A legal shield for social media is showing cracks | Politico
• What is Section 230 and how is it different than the First Amendment? | Foundation for Economic Education
• GLAAD gives social media giants poor grades over lack of protections for LGBTQ users | NPR
  • GLAAD: Social media networks fail to protect LGBTQ users | Axios

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• The fight over truth also has a red state, blue state divide | New York Times
• The sale of 2 Spanish talk radio stations may counter the spread of disinformation | NPR
• Disinformation is the next big cybersecurity threat | Security Magazine

Copyright

• Unmasking anonymous copyright infringers: Where the DMCA, First Amendment, and fair use meet | National Law Review

International News

• Twitter, challenging orders to remove content, sues India's government | New York Times
• Russia seeks to punish expats who criticize war on social media | Bloomberg
• Photos: Thousands march in Romania as law censoring LGBTQ looms | Al Jazeera
• China's surveillance state hits rare resistance from its own subjects | New York Times

Around the Web

• To fight book banning, support librarians | New York Times
• The dangerous lesson of book bans in public school libraries | Reason
• Librarians caught up in vicious anti-LGBTQ cultural book bans are quitting | Los Angeles Blade
• The new censorship fight at our public libraries | Tampa Bay Times
• What Kansas City librarians have learned since 1995's book-banning effort in Olathe | NPR
• Nampa, Idaho, school district removes over 20 books from schools | National Coalition Against Censorship
• Principal bans discussion of 'All Boys Aren't Blue' -- Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
• Battle over sex and gender in books divides a Texas Town | Wall Street Journal
• Library trustees, commissioners aren't upholding their fiduciary duty | Daily Interlake
• Group starts recall for library board | Bonners Ferry Herald (ID)
• With another leader leaving, Vinton Public Library closes for now | Gazette (IA)
• One Small Step for Democracy in a 'Live Free or Die' Town | New York Timesw
• What should a queer children's book do? | New Yorker
• How Western Library became the first public library in the nation for Black Americans | Louisville Courier-Journal (KY)
• "Critical race theory" is being weaponised. What's the fuss about? | Economist
• Urban Library Trauma Study - Final Report | Urban Librarians Unite
• The far-right Christian quest for power: 'We are seeing them emboldened' | New York Times
• Newton County superintendent remains neutral amid critical race theory controversy | Covington News (GA)
• What to know about the controversy around Where the Crawdads Sing | TIME
• Teachers union wants Democrats to fight back against Republicans' critical race theory attacks | NBC News
• Montana rejects library logo over similarity to Pride flag | Valdo State Daily Times
• Fayetteville Library seeks community participation in art project celebrating banned and challenged books | KNWA (AR)

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