Upon the order of a federal judge to return certain books qualified as “inappropriatein the county of Flatin Texashis Library system is analyzing if closes its three branches before returning the titles that they had withdrawn from their shelves.
He Llano County Commissioners Court will hold a meeting tomorrow Thursday to discuss if they will cancel the operations from his library system while waiting for the response and guidance of the Courts fedsthis after the federal judge robert pitman order them to return to their shelves 12 children’s books that they had been retired and within which there is content LGBTQ and of racial nature.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent (2020), by Isabel wilkerson, They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group (2010), from Susan Campbell Bartolettiand Be Jazz: My Life as a Teenager (Transgender) (2016), by Jazz Jenningswere three of the titles withdrawn from the three county libraries.
In April 2022, seven inhabitants of Llano, supported by the violation of their rights to First and the Fourteenth Amendmentsued county officials for having removed the works without any legal argument and only because they considered “inappropriate”.
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According to the lawsuit, these commissioners expelled various board members from the Library system from 2021 to replace them with new members who agreed with review the content of all your books to decide if they were inappropriate and remove them from your collection and its electronic access.
The judge gave 24 hours to the Llano Library System for them to put these books back on their shelves, since “the first amendment prohibits removal of books from libraries in function of the discrimination for him point of view or the content”, however, Llano County commissioners and Library Board members appealed the judge’s decision.
He April 27 the next hearing of the case in which the possible sanctions against the accusedsince they did not appear to declare in the first one.
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