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STOP BANNING BOOKS - FIX THE “SENSITIVE MATERIALS” LAW

The Purge of Books has Begun!

Utah legislators passed HB29 in 2024, claiming that librarians, teachers, and school board members should suffer criminal “consequences” for having books like Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye, Judy Blume’s Forever, and Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian on high school library shelves. The law required an automatic purging of school library books if three districts banned a book (or if two districts and five charters banned a book.) Now the first wave of statewide book purges has begun with the banning of 13 books, and more to come!

Unlike some legislators who are out to make political hay and use national culture war issues to divide us, Utahns understand that great American authors like Judy Blume, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison are not pornographers, and no one should be criminally charged for selling, giving, or lending a book to a high school student. We also understand that our communities should have the right to elect local board members who make educational policy that support local students and parents.

Tell Governor Cox and your legislators STOP BANNING BOOKS and work with librarians and teachers to FIX THE LAW, and preserve local control of our schools so that good literature isn’t being purged from school library shelves across Utah.

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