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Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law

  • Written by Nicole Cooke, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship lawA sign of the timesGeraldine Wilkins/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A bill pending in Missouri’s legislature takes aim at libraries and librarians who are making “age-inappropriate sexual material” available to children.

The measure, championed by Ben Baker, a Republican lawmaker, calls for establishing review boards who would...

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