Sunday, January 29, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: North Dakota GOP fights crime and inflation with bill that would send librarians to jail

 
Photo:  North Dakota Legislative Branch (clown face added)
Top headline:  NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  Second Nexus, 1/20/2023

From Second Nexus:  
A bill introduced in the North Dakota House of Representatives would not only ban books it deems inappropriate from public libraries—it would also allow prosecutors to charge anyone not complying with the law with a Class B misdemeanor. 
That would mean the possibility of up to 30 days imprisonment and a $1,500 fine for any librarians who do not comply with the law. 
North Dakota's HB 1205 has a section titled "Public libraries prohibited from maintaining or promoting certain books" which defines what the lawmakers who introduced the bill consider "explicit sexual material." 
Their definition is probably quite different from what most people would include under their idea of "sexually explicit."

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