Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Awaiting Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s signature is a bill that empowers local prosecutors to bring charges against public and school libraries if they don’t move “harmful” materials away from children.
53% : “The laws are designed to limit or remove legal protections that libraries have had for decades,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
53% : Arkansas and Indiana targeted educators and librarians with criminalization laws last year.
38% : Referring to “pornography” in the foreword to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a possible second Donald Trump administration, the right-wing group’s president, Kevin Roberts, wrote that the “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
29% : Tennessee criminalized publishers that provide “obscene” materials to public schools.

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