Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas
- Written by James B. Blasingame, Professor of English, Arizona State University
Some school librarians in Florida have found themselves in the midst of controversy over complaints of "obscene" titles in their libraries.Trish233/iStock via Getty ImagesWhen a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in...