This Week in Book Challenges
- January 18, 2024
Here is an update on the latest book challenges for the week of January 17, 2024
- Boone County, KY retains acclaimed picture book after challenge over fairytale kiss
- Carroll County, MD unanimously approves restrictive “sexual content” book banning policy
- Clay County, FL caves to Moms for Liberty's misleading “parental rights” message, book rating demand
- Cottonwood, AZ school district considers policy letting anyone challenge books, banishing them to back room
- Des Moines County, IA school districts Danville and West Burlington will follow SF 496, ignoring injunction
- Fairfield, CT superintendent promises to reschedule author event that was canceled due to anti-LGBTQ+ complaints
- Hanover, VA school board’s overbroad book ban policy confuses parents at meeting
- Idaho HB 384 would ban minors from accessing material containing depictions of “homosexuality”
- Marietta, GA keeps bans in place for 23 predominantly LGBTQ+ books despite appeal
- Massachusetts H 4229/S2582 would prevent book bans due to personal or political beliefs
- New Mexico HB 123 has been introduced, banning book bans on the model of Illinois’s bill last year
- New Prairie, IN votes to retain 6 challenged books
- Sioux City Public Schools, IA approves policy based on SF 496, ignoring injunction