This Week in Book Challenges [3]
- By Philomena Polefrone [4]
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 [5]
- Florida bill would limit non-guardians to one challenge per month in schools [6]
- Florida removes climate change references in science textbook [7]
- Georgia lawsuit against anti-LGBTQ+ book bans adds student and youth group plaintiffs [8]
- Katy ISD, TX banned 5 books since April [9]
- Knox County Schools, TN to consider new policy following implementation of book ban law today (7/11) [10]
- Llano County, TX decision in 5th circuit, which saw books returned to shelves, to be reviewed by same court [11]
- Menomonee Falls, WI approves openly LGBTQ+-phobic book ban [12]
- Osseo School Board, MN votes to keep “What Girls Are Made Of” [13]
- Rio Grande Valley, TX school district targets 676 books for bans [14]
- 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) [15]
- Tennessee book ban law went into effect as of July 1 [16]