The Hillsborough Board voted to uphold local school and district decisions to retain the books Identical and Blankets after objectors refused to accept the committee decisions.

go.boarddocs.com/fl/sdhc/Board.…

Book ban data here. I update regularly. Data also at Florida Freedom to Read Project and support also at AuthorsAgainstBookBans and Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰 and so many more. everylibraryinstitute.org/book_censorshi…

Since HB 1285 passed last month, dozens of citizen objections have been logged in Polk, Hillsborough, and Bay Counties by single individuals (assisted by special interest “freedom” and “liberty” groups).

This is what we have tracked so far via PRR. There will be more.

Update on the new challenges in Bay District Schools obtained through PRR.

More than two dozen citizen objections filed over the past month - all but two filed by the same person. All of them used Booklooks forms to generate their complaints.

We have a new blog post on our SchoolLibraryJournal blog, Politics in Practice, 'Fighting Public School Book Bans with the Civil Rights Act.'

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Another update to the Collier County Public Schools list of permanently removed books returns 24 titles to the shelves including The Inheritance Games, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Girl with a Pearl Earring, On the Road, and The Impossible Life of Memory.

A long list still:
collierschools.com/cms/lib/FL0190…