A bill to prevent public schools and state-funded libraries in Pennsylvania from banning books was introduced by state Sen. Amanda Cappelletti (D-Montgomery 

County) last Monday. Her legislation would require every library in the state seeking state funding, including public school libraries, to write a statement that no books or other media will be banned “because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval,”LNP/Lancaster Online reports. 

Cappelletti called it unconstitutional to ban any book from a library.

“If you do not want a child or your child to read a certain book, they don’t have to read it,” she said. “But that should not stop my child from being able to access that book in a library.”

Read "How Efforts to Ban 'Bad Books' Reached a Record High in 2022," by Stacker for The Hustings; June 12, 2023 here: https://thehustings.news/same-fears-new-tactics-how-efforts-to-ban-bad-books-reached-a-record-high-in-2022/

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