joncamfieldMy Texas hometown privatized the public library and is having the local police review books, so, yeah. Yeah.
Melody the Great@joncamfield unfathomable. What are police actually looking for in the books?
Gayle J. Greenlea 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@Melodyvacc @joncamfield Anything “woke”. That means anything empathetic, compassionate or justice and equality-oriented. No LGBTQIA, no women in power, no people of color, no Black History, no civil rights, no science.
@GJGreenlea @joncamfield Do you know if there is a policy on what they are looking for?
@Melodyvacc @joncamfield I’m not sure what the official policy is, but this article might give you an idea of what they’re looking for: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/19/texas-book-bans/
@GJGreenlea @joncamfield My guess is that this is the town Jon is talking about and I don't see that police are doing the censoring. That was specifically what I wanted to know more about. I'm familiar with the general trends in censoring, it was the the police addition that was new but I cannot verify it.
@Melodyvacc @GJGreenlea the only source I have on that is a video from an fb group organizing against the privatization; the group is public, but focused on local voter signatures for a recall vote: https://www.alpha.facebook.com/groups/htxpublicfirst/
@Melodyvacc @joncamfield Last May, police conducted a “criminal investigation” in Grandbury ISD because a review committee returned some banned books to library shelves. 😳 https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/hood-county-constables-launch-criminal-investigation-after-complaints-of-porn-in-granbury-isd-libraries-14052358 Apparently police have been called in to investigate complaints about library books in other school districts. This is not same as reviewing books. It’s possibly worse, as it implies the criminalization of displaying banned books. Teachers are being threatened with felonies.
@Melodyvacc @joncamfield Here’s a list of books banned from school libraries in San Antonio: https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/94fee7ff93eff9609f141433e41f8ae1/krausebooklist.pdf #BannedBooks
@Melodyvacc @joncamfield Here’s more: Books probed by a Texas lawmaker by women, people of color, LGBTQ writers. They’re asking: ‘Really?’ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/10/28/books-probed-by-a-texas-lawmaker-by-women-people-of-color-lgbtq-writers-theyre-asking-really/ #BookBans