The 2021-2022 state legislative sessions saw an unprecedented number of bills that would remove librarians from exemptions from prosecution under state obscenity and harmful to minor laws.
Click here to download the report: “Opposing Attempts to Criminalize Libraries and Education Through State Obscenity Laws”
The EverLibrary Institute is releasing a new Policy Brief “Opposing Attempts to Criminalize Libraries and Education Through State Obscenity Laws” to help state library associations anticipate this legislation and prepare properly to oppose unnecessary politicized changes to settled state law.
We see that these obscenity-related legislative initiatives are as closely related to attempts to limit access to content like school library databases and ebook libraries.
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Activist legislators have introduced these bills in the absence of demonstrable community needs.
Please see our October 2022 Policy Brief “Weathering the Attacks” for a discussion of those issues.
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