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  • 1.  Monitoring litigation against state statutes criminalizing librarians

    Posted Feb 16, 2024 04:13 PM

    Is IFRT or any website allowing us to monitor  litigation against state statutes criminalizing librarians, like the federal case pending in Idaho? At most, I understand that this website tracks pending statutes.

    Michael (representing just myself, and not my employer)



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    Michael Ginsborg
    Supervising Librarian
    California Department of Justice
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  • 2.  RE: Monitoring litigation against state statutes criminalizing librarians

    Posted Feb 16, 2024 04:27 PM

    ALA maintains a legislation tracker here: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/adverse-legislation-states.   The bill type is to the right; bills addressing criminal prosecution for obscenity are identified as such. 

     

    The Public Policy and Advocacy Office, with support from OIF and other units, monitors a range of adverse legislation, including state legislation that threatens to remove exemptions or defenses to criminal obscenity prosecution, or create new criminal statutes.  ALA works in cooperation with its state chapters to address adverse legislation, taking the lead from the state chapter and its legislative committee or volunteers. 

     

    Best,

    Deborah

     

    Deborah Caldwell-Stone

    American Library Association

    Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom

    Executive Director, The Freedom to Read Foundation

    225 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 1300

    Chicago, IL 60601

    312-280-4224

     




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