Tag: Book Bans

Newly elected chair Angie Gallo says OCPS has a “robust policy” in place and is in compliance with state law.

One bill seeks to ban books with any mention of sex from schools — looking at you Romeo & Juliet! — while the other would punish exposing oneself while observing children.

The District 3 school board member faces fellow School Board Member Angie Gallo in the nonpartisan August election.

American Library Association, PEN America say “blatantly unconstitutional” legislation would violate students’ First Amendment rights.

Banning classic books, fluoride and plant foods labeled "milk" or "meat" together with curbing teen violence, regulating drone use, instituting tax breaks for veterans and lowering the age for organ donation — these are just some of the bills local lawmakers will be working on during the 60-day legislative session that starts Tuesday.

Stephana Ferrell, co-founder of Florida Freedom to Read Project, talks about those 673 banned books, how the list came together and if those books will ever come back.

“You will not tell us what we can read or what we can know about our plight in America over 400 years.”

The Orange County Board of Education wants to re-define “pornography” to circumvent longstanding procedures for removing controversial books from school library shelves.

One man grabbed the spotlight at a fall school board meeting. Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins caved. Now LGBTQ and certain BIPOC books can’t be found in school libraries, and bills to make that permanent are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.

After the Orlando Sentinel’s splashy Sunday spread on Moms For Liberty, SPEAKUp’s co-founder had to speak out against censorship.