The Missouri ACLU has announced a lawsuit on behalf of MASL and the MLA against Jackson County to address SB 775, and the undue burden it puts on school librarians as well as other librarians in the state. Given the overlapping peril with the latest HB’s coming out to codify the Secretary of State’s proposed rule, it will be increasingly crucial to mitigate harm to libraries, schools, and librarians themselves in the hostile environment this sort of legislation causes in our state.
Here’s a link to the press release: https://www.aclu-mo.org/en/news/aclu-missouri-professional-library-organizations-challenge-government-censorship-and-book
Joe Kohlburn 