Dear Governor Scott: Protect Our Books and Librarians

by annikee | Books | 212 Views

I just sent this msg to our Governor. We should start this movement.

Dear Governor Scott,

Please consider doing this for Vermont. We cherish our freedom and our libraries.

“PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.”

Thank you,
Laura Austan
Brattleboro

Comments | 4

  • Submitted by cgrotke on December 10, 2024 at 12:53 pm

    Yes

    Illinois and Minnesota, too.

    This shouldn’t be necessary but would be easy to do.

  • Submitted by Grumpy Old Nerd on December 10, 2024 at 4:16 pm

    A good idea.

    This protects against the red-team form of this issue. Hopefully any law will be crafted to also prevent the blue-team version: librarians “weeding” books, often classics, on ideological grounds, or because they don’t like the sex, race, or age of the author, etc.

  • Submitted by annikee on December 11, 2024 at 6:38 pm

    Email your state leggies

    The best way to get this done is the state leg, but we need to lean on Scott to not veto or ignore it.

  • Submitted by annikee on December 15, 2024 at 10:48 am

    Crickets

    I emailed Emilie Kornheiser also, no reply from either.

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