With apologies for how long this has taken, attached are my selective notes on the Freedom to Read Foundation Board meeting that happened on Jan. 21st.
I realize I may have gone too far with the level of detail on this, my first time doing this; but hopefully not so much as to make it unapproachable! It follows the same format as the document of links that I posted on an Agenda thread on the day of our last meeting (Feb. 25), and so is very selective in covering only a few of the many items on the packed FTRF agenda that day – focusing on things that I felt were most relevant to SRRT, and/or where what was said in the meeting differed from what was in the corresponding documents that I link to near the top in the notes.
For those who were at our February meeting, I think I covered the first six of the cases then. I did not get to the legislation sections (so April asked me to send these notes); and that material is not covered in very much detail in Drive documents. In fact - I think - the Media Coalition Report from MC Executive Director David Horowitz, very interesting and relevant, is not covered in Drive docs at all.
[NOTE also that one part that I read aloud last month, where Barbara Stripling specifically called for input for their Task Force on Intersection Between Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice, is toward the bottom part of page 7.]
I have been put way, way behind these past several weeks by an identity theft / attempted fraud incident that demanded max. attention very soon after our Feb. meeting. It has been an incredible learning experience and test of patience and perseverance – and as if to punctuate that, the district I work for was the target of a significant cyber-attack on Tuesday, and our online systems (for all ten colleges) have been down ever since!
steven
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Steven Phalen
Library Faculty
Maricopa County Community Colleges
He/Him/His
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