SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Lisa Schencker | January 14, 2013

A children’s book about a family with lesbian mothers is back on Davis School District library shelves more than eight months after a committee first decided to restrict access to it.

The district returned the book, In Our Mothers’ House, by Patricia Polacco, to the regular shelves of four school libraries Monday in response to a lawsuit over the issue filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Utah in November on behalf of a Kaysville parent, said Chris Williams, Davis spokesman.

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Original NDLA IF Blog postings…
June 6, 2012 ~ November 26, 2012

Freedom to Read Foundation’s statement on the FTRF Blog.

GREENVILLE ONLINE
Lyn Riddle | January 3, 2013

Beverly James is a diminutive woman with a soft voice and a kind face.

In a wool suit, nicely accessorized, sitting in the boardroom of the Hughes Main Library, she looks every bit the librarian she is.

She’s also a woman who is standing up to a national backlash among organizations that fight book banning and from fans of award-winning author Alan Moore, who say her decision to take his graphic novel out of circulation at the Greenville County Library is nothing short of censorship.

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Bay County Considers Book Ban
(WJHG | Chad Mira | May 30, 2012)

Harford County libraries won’t stock ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and sequels
(Baltimore Sun | Mary Carole McCauley | May 30, 2012)

Original postings on NDLA IF Blog:
April 13, 2012 — May 4, 2012

PATRIOT NEWS
Donald Gilliland | February 13, 2012

One man’s art might be another’s pornography … but Field & Stream?

The list of publications that have been banned from entering state prisons is often surprising:

• A book, “Astral Travel for Beginners.”

• A state-funded tourism brochure prison officials thought advocated insurrection.

• The State Employees’ Retirement Code, on the basis that it was evidence of criminal activity.

Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel said things are going to change.

“I’m making some tweaks to how we do business,” Wetzel told The Patriot-News.

State prison inmates may receive books, newspapers and magazines, but only if they are sent directly from the publisher or bookseller. Even then, each is reviewed by a local committee of employees in each prison.

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