2. Officials from the Manatee County School District confirmed the new policy to http://popular.info.

The policy was communicated to principals in a meeting last Wednesday.

Teachers are in the process of being informed now.

5. The new policy in Manatee, which is likely to be duplicated across Florida, was issued in response to HB 1467, which was signed into law by DeSantis last March.

That law established that teachers could not be trusted to select books appropriate for their students.

6. Instead, all books in libraries or used in classroom instruction must be selected by a "media specialist" (aka, a librarian).

This means that classroom libraries that are curated by teachers, not librarians, are now illegal.

https://popular.info/p/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books

7. The Manatee County School District is mandating that teachers make their classroom libraries inaccessible until they can establish that each book is approved by a librarian

Some teachers packed up their classroom libraries. Others covered up the books with construction paper

@juddlegum I guess Fahrenheit 451 won’t be on the “approved” list either…

I fully support any teachers that refuse to comply with this bullshit law.

Make a scene, go down kicking and screaming, get carried out by the cops for having “unauthorized” books.

Really hit home how absolutely insane this really is.

Do you know of any non-profits that can be donated to to help teachers fight this?

@juddlegum And on that note. Any teacher that is charged with this should absolutely take it all the way to a jury trial.

Let DeSantis and his fascists see how jury nullification works.

https://ransom-lawfirm.com/state-v-nicholas-jury-nullification/

@matthewmuses @juddlegum Well… obviously it depends on how choosy the prosecution and court is on providing a pool of jurors obviously…

Watch 12 Angry Men, all it takes is one juror for the charges to be thrown out.

You, as a juror, have the inherent right to decide what justice actually is.

The facts and laws don’t matter in the slightest. It doesn’t matter how much the judge and attorneys want you to believe otherwise.

Good, bad, or indifferent, that’s reality.

@david @juddlegum One thing the prosecution will look out for is people who will ignore the law.

Did you watch "12 Angry Men?" Jury nullification has nothing to do with plot.

A jury's job is to determine the facts, not the law. If facts and law don't matter, than what's the point?

Jury nullification doesn't change the law. It just acquits the person charged in that case.

@matthewmuses @juddlegum yes, I’ve seen it. It was a film about 1 juror changing the minds of all the others.

You don’t get to see the facts of the case, only the deliberations.

My point with that, is it only takes 1 juror to hang a jury or nullify a case entirely.

You, as a juror, have a moral right to do so.

Unjust laws have no business being enforced by anyone. The jury is the ultimate decider of guilt and innocence.