Kim Butler
ARDC Intake Division - Chicago
One Prudential Plaza
130 E Randolph Dr, Ste 1500
Chicago, IL 60601-6219
Re: Complaint, Deborah A. Caldwell-Stone
in relation to
Dan Kleinman No. 2022IN03640
Dear Kim Butler,
I hereby add to my previous response dated November 29 additional information below just discovered about Deborah Caldwell-Stone’s reframing material known to her to be sexually inappropriate for children as diverse and inclusive.
She made the following statements in public on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah site (and as usual with zero counterbalance because she will never allow herself to be challenged publicly). In “Why Are So Many Books Being Banned? - Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show,” by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, YouTube, 20 September 2022, https://youtu.be/i2iiyU-z5E4, the following statements can be seen/heard that back up the new evidence relevant to her violation of Rule 8.4.
The new evidence is:
1) She knows her reframing tactic is the key to her Rule 8.4 violation since she herself uses reframing as a sword against parents, several times, to claim parents are reframing books for children as pornography to commit censorship.
3:53.5 “[Parents who attend school board meetings] even use false framing around the the the idea that this is pornography…” 3:58.5
23:30.5 “Parents Defending Education, whatever, um, are creating a false and uh toxic framing around materials that deal with uh gender identity, sexual orientation, and even sex ed. You know. And they’re arguing that these books are obscene for minors to read, obscene for the display for minors, or are, you know, whoever writes them or whoever provides them are pandering obscenity to minors. And that’s absolutely false. What the Const, you know, the Supreme Court has told us what is protected speech in this case, and sex is a protected top, subject. Gender identity, sexual orientation, all these things, that, you know, if it has educational value, it has scientific value, artistic value, literature, that’s all protected by the First Amendment. But they’re trying to shift the needle on this conversation. They’re trying to reframe this in a way that um gives them the tools they need to censor all of this material. And, uh, and use the courts, and and use the law to do it.” 24.30.5
2) Since she is claiming parents are reframing books for children as pornography, she is flat out lying to them and about them, and knowingly, per her statements submitted in my ethics complaint. She knows these books are sexually inappropriate for children. Her statements are intended to mislead people about sexually inappropriate material for children in schools and how it could be removed forthwith under the law if only librarians trained by her were not lying. (This logical conclusion was based on assistance by co-author and child development professional Valentina Janjus.)
3) She speaks about obscenity but that is not the issue in Board of Education v. Pico that’s relevant to school libraries. She’s flat out lying about law by implying books may never be removed from schools since they aren’t obscene under California v. Miller, SCOTUS 1975, a case that doesn’t even apply to school library books. In reality, pervasively vulgar books may be removed immediately from schools under Board of Education v. Pico, SCOTUS 1982.
4) She brags about being a “recovering attorney,” so her claim she was not acting as an attorney for her employer is patently false as here she is on television and streaming services making essentially the exact arguments she made in the webinar that is the subject of this RPC 8.4 violation.
51:39 “And, you know, I’m a recovering attorney so uh it’s almost incumbent on me to throw up To Kill a Mockingbird although it’s kind of cliched, ha ha ha.” 51:49
5) Lastly, she makes no mention that the real issue is parents oppose books suffused with pervasive vulgarity like per Harris (https://web.archive.org/web/20110416110441/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/754/Default.aspx) and Rasmussen (https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/voters_against_obscene_books_in_public_schools) polls, not “gender identity, sexual orientation, and even sex ed” books per her deceptive reframing.
Overall, she is basically saying no books are ever inappropriate for school libraries when that is legally false and books like “Gender Queer” are being removed under Board of Education v. Pico so often that American Library Association created Unite Against Book Bans just to counteract that specific book being removed.
This type of false statement is a part of a pattern for Deborah Caldwell-Stone, a habit, if you will. It’s her habit to say there’s no there there to serious crimes that affect people negatively as a result of American Library Association policy. As a result of American Library Association policy recommendations not to filter out pornography from library computers despite the law and despite United States v. American Library Association, SCOTUS 2003, many librarians have been sexually harassed by porn-viewing male patrons. By the way, US v. ALA found, “There are substantial Government interests at stake here: The interest in protecting young library users from material inappropriate for minors is legitimate, and even compelling, as all Members of the Court appear to agree.” But Deborah Caldwell-Stone doesn’t mention that either.
Some librarians have obtained large amounts of money by settling out of court as a result of sexual harassment suits arising from the application of American Library Association policy created by her Office for Intellectual Freedom. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, however, said librarians have never been sexually harassed and likely never will be because all the suits settled out of court and, besides, proving it in court is so hard to do. See her say this here: https://youtu.be/JwXeTfvzQHk?t=316.
That was nine years ago. Librarians continue to be sexualized by porn viewers as a result, just as today, children continue to be sexualized by books selected by school librarians trained by the same attorney. This attorney has a long term pattern of lying to communities and harming them, and she’s doing it again, in a manner that affects the nation and her children as a whole, all occasioned by her continuing violation of Illinois RPC 8.4.
Will the ARDC finally put an end to this?
Please incorporate this into my previous response as if it was originally submitted then and there.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
/Dan Kleinman/
Dan Kleinman
SafeLibraries® brand library educational services
641 Shunpike Rd #123
Chatham, NJ 07928
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#DailyShow #BeyondTheScenes interview w/Deborah Caldwell Stone @ALALibrary @OIF @FTRF & All Boys Aren't Blue author George M Johnson @IamGMJohnson explain #FreedomToRead, #IntellectualFreedom, & challenges facing librarians/readers. #UniteAgainstBookBans https://t.co/nrD9rUpRJP
— IFRT (@IFRT_ALA) September 28, 2022
Updated to add, "This logical conclusion was based on assistance by co-author and child development professional Valentina Janjus."
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