#sf496 — Public Fediverse posts
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U.S. Appeals Courts Deals a Blow to the Freedom to Read
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that school officials and politicians have broad discretion to order the removal of books from school libraries as long as the removals are "reasonably" related to "legitimate pedagogical concerns."
The post U.S. Appeals Courts Deals a Blow to the Freedom to Read appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/u-s-appeals-courts-deals-a-blow-to-the-freedom-to-read/#FreedomtoRead #Libraries #PenguinRandomHouse #SF496 #UnitedStates
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#PenguinRandomHouse, alongside the #IowaStateEducationAssociation (#ISEA), four #bestselling #authors, and five #plaintiffs from #Iowa, have joined #LambdaLegal and the #ACLUofIowa in challenging Iowa's controversial #SF496.
Their #federal #lawsuit that seeks to overturn the #bookban #provisions of the #AntiLGBTQ law which is accused of #silencing #LGBTQ+ #students by #banning #books containing #sexual or #LGBTQ+ #content.
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#LGBTQ #plaintiffs make strong #case against #Iowa's #AntiLGBTQ #education #law
Seven Iowa #families and the #advocacygroup #IowaSafeSchools filed the first #lawsuits #challenging one of those statutes: the wide-ranging #education #bill known as #SF496..
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#Iowa #LGBTQ #students file #lawsuit over new #state #law.
The #ACLU of Iowa joined two #lawfirms in filing a #lawsuit challenging #Iowa #SF496, which #prohibits the #instruction of #genderidentity and #sexualorientation through sixth grade, #prohibits #books with #descriptions of #sex #acts and #requires #parentalnotification when a K-12 student wants to be referred to by a different #pronoun or #name in school.