“The whole purpose of this legislation is to make people afraid.”
in an effort to control what is learned and discussed in schools. More recently, conservative censorship has found a new potential target: publishing houses.that specifically calls out book publishers that distribute materials to K-12 public schools, saying those publishers can be charged with a felony and fined at least $10,000 or up to $100,000 if the materials are found to be legally obscene.
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the ALA’s office for intellectual freedom, also expresses fear of the potential consequences of SB 1059.
Many advocates are worried that the bill is a tipping point in Republicans' fight to limit the kind of books publishing houses are legally allowed to produce. In February,was introduced in Congress that would “prohibit a publishing house from knowingly furnishing sexually explicit material to a school or an educational agency.
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