US Government Exposes 'Book Ban' Hoax; What Parents and School Boards Can Do Next

The United States Department of Education has found the "banned books" claim by the American Library Association [ALA] from Chicago, IL, is a "hoax."

See:

• "U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax," by US Department of Education, Government of the United States, 24 January 2025.
• https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax

It has ended the charade, dropping multiple actions against parents.  The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has:

1. "dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called 'book bans.'  The complaints alleged that local school districts' removal of age-inappropriate, s[]xually explicit, or obscene materials from their school libraries created a hostile environment for students"
2. pointing out this is, "a meritless claim premised upon a dubious legal theory."
3. "Effective Jan. 24, 2025, OCR has rescinded all department guidance issued under the theory that a school district’s removal of age-inappropriate books from its libraries may violate civil rights laws."
4. "OCR is also dismissing six additional pending allegations of book banning"
5. "and [OCR] will no longer employ a 'book ban coordinator' to investigate local school districts and parents working to protect students from obscene content."

We learn from this:

1. Claims of book bans from ALA are and have been a hoax 
1. (just as I have been reporting here for decades)
2. Claims of book bans are "meritless" and "premised upon a dubious legal theory" 
1. (one that ALA made up as part of its approximately 60 year efforts to remove parental rights to better indoctrinate children in schools, powered by taxpayer resources and ALA-trained school librarians: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing)
3. Claims of book bans are such a hoax that the federal government has dropped eleven complaints about removal of inappropriate materials from school libraries.
4. Claims of book bans are such a hoax that policy was rescinded where the policy claims hoax book bans violated civil rights laws.
5. Removing inappropriate books from school libraries doesn't violate civil rights laws.
1. (Pervasively vulgar and educationally unsuitable books may be removed from school libraries, and removed immediately, without the ALA claim that a review committee is needed, the book must stay on the shelves until the process has ended, etc., all made up requirements from Chicago's ALA that made up these rules in the first place.  So if an inappropriate book is in your school library or a classroom library, it may be removed immediately under the law, namely, the Pico case.  Further, all those trans and gender ideology books are educationally unsuitable, so they may be removed en masse immediately.  That's right, anything educationally unsuitable may be removed immediately.  And when librarians cry foul, remind them they have been working for decades to create an imbalance of books where the trans ideology now vastly outnumbers the books they have slowly weeded out, like Shakespeare and other dead white guys, as ALA puts it.)
6. Six allegations of book banning are being dropped because book banning claims are a hoax.
7. A "book banning coordinator" is being fired because book banning in schools is a hoax.

Based on this, what does that mean, what can parents and school boards do next:

1. All existing Freedom to Read Acts, Libraries For All Acts, Right to Read Acts currently in existence that ALA has promoted, which is all of them, are instantly suspect as they have been based on a book ban hoax.  They should be repealed or legally defeated.  It's law based on a hoax and written by the ALA that perpetrated the hoax in the first place.  It's law that directly harms children.
2. All legislation seeking to create Freedom to Read Acts, Libraries For All Acts, Right to Read Acts are based on the book ban hoax, so they should be dropped or otherwise disposed.  "The elimination of federal oversight in these matters shifts the responsibility of determining which books are available in school libraries entirely to local school boards, districts, and parents.  For proponents of the change, this represents a victory for parental rights and local governance.  It allows communities to shape their educational environments based on shared values and priorities without federal intervention." (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/trump-education-department-ends-biden-era-book-ban-hoax-plan-what-it-means-for-school-libraries-across-us/articleshow/117577727.cms). True.  And the ALA's Freedom to Read Acts, Libraries For All Acts, Right to Read Acts are intentionally designed to take those rights away and leave them in the hands of ALA itself via local ALA organizations, like state associations of school librarians.
3. All school librarians promoting opposition to book bans are promoting a hoax and using public funding to do so.  They should be required to stop promoting the hoax.  If they refuse, or if they claim to comply but keep using fugitive pedagogy to keep teaching the hoax, they should be fired and their licenses to teach anywhere revoked.  Sounds harsh but do it to a few and the rest will get the message that the law controls, not Chicago's ALA community organizers.
4. Parents may now assume, instead of that librarians are experts who must know what they are doing so we should defer to them, that school librarians have been hoaxing them for a long time and that providing school children with explicit material is not right, and parents have the right and the power to force school boards to comply with the law instead of with Chicago's ALA.
5. ALA has reacted to US DOE's action by labeling US DOE, Trump and his voters as arbitrary, cruel, homophobic, racist, dictatorial, and thinking they are above the law, all while wasting tax payer money to defend "book bans."  https://www.ala.org/news/2025/01/book-bans-are-real  Well, US DOE just removed the tax payer waste excuse regarding a situation ALA forced in the first place with its banned books hoax.  And the public now sees ALA's defense is the naked statement "Banned Books Are Real" while attacking people as racist and homophobic, showing they have absolutely no legitimate argument that the banned books hoax they created isn't a hoax.  ALA is just going to keep on attacking people.  Full disclosure, ALA has gotten me involved in five defamation suits to silence me or other parents, and I'm in three now concurrently.  All over the book ban hoax.
6. Parents can stop being intimidated by school librarians crying about nonexistent book bans.
7. School superintendents can stop being intimidated by school librarians crying about book bans.
8. School board members can stop being intimidated by school librarians crying about book bans.
9. School board members can rewrite school policies to remove any references to Chicago ALA's Library Bill of Rights and other diktat.  For example, get rid of the Library Bill of Rights that makes it age discrimination to keep kids from inappropriate material in direct violation of Board of Education v. Pico, allow inappropriate books to be removed immediately in accordance with Board of Education v. Pico, get rid of book review committees that are from ALA and not in the Pico case, and get rid of policies that require books be reviewed only by review sources librarians claim are legitimate.  In reality, that's a significant way ALA librarians force libraries to heavily balance in favor of gender ideology.  Meanwhile, librarians viciously attack wholesome material as inappropriate for public schools: "Moms For Liberty Published Their First Book; And the America First and America Best Group Used a Russian Illustrator For It," by Kelly Jensen, Well Sourced by Kelly Jensen, 25 January 2025.  And recall ALA trained librarians to block Christians from public library meeting rooms, like Kirk Cameron and Brave Books (https://www.kenningtonreport.com/p/alas-banned-books-and-censorship), while at the same time "sneakily" pushing drag queen gender ideology into public libraries (https://web.archive.org/web/20170612040326/https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intersections-glbt-book-month-dispatch-small-town-librarian). 
10. Currently lawsuits against parents based on the book banning hoax, including those in which I'm involved, will possibly benefit from the federal government exposing the Chicago ALA's hoax.  ALA and its partners like PEN America have ongoing lawsuits in AL, FL, LA, NH, NJ, TX, WY, etc.  The federal government has already dumped 11 cases and 6 investigations.  We all shall see what happens to the current lawsuits ALA instigated.
11. When you read what the hoax perpetrators themselves say in response to the US Department of Education's action on the book ban hoaxes, notice the response is always to attack the messenger:
• "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the leader of the biggest book-banning state government in the nation" (https://pen.org/not-a-hoax-trump-administration-dismisses-book-ban-complaints/)
• "Title IX and Title VI were enacted to protect children in schools, and those protections must not be undermined by political agendas or dismissive rhetoric" (https://www.everylibrary.org/trump_administration_ends_school_book_ban_consent_decree)
• "In their cruel and headlong effort to terminate protections from discrimination for LGBTQIA+ students and students of color, the Department of Education advances the demonstrably false claim that book bans are not real." (https://www.ala.org/news/2025/01/book-bans-are-real)

Now, everyone, stop being intimidated by librarians, even if they are in Hollywood documentaries about hoax book bans by Sarah Jessica Parker from which librarians are grifting (https://givebutter.com/pen).  Even if they are saying you have to have empathy, like librarian Martha Hickson says when donating $25 to PEN America, as shown above, since empathy is weaponized against you.  Stop your legislators from passing laws written by Chicago's ALA.  Start demanding your school boards dump the policies written by the hoaxers.  Your children being free from indoctrination and s[]xualization is more important than the feelings or even the jobs of school librarians.

ALA's house of cards is about to fall.  Let it.

By the way, here's where I proved it was ALA that infiltrated the White House with the banned books hoax:

• "Library Boards Trained to Lie by ALA; Banned Books Wedge Issue Adopted by White House," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 21 June 2023. 
• https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/06/library-boards-trained-to-lie-by-ala.html

R.I.P. to the Book Ban Hoax

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Librarians Use ALA Platform to Bully Parents Opposing Drag Queens Sexualizing Children in Libraries

Librarians protect their fellow Marxists at all costs, even crossing all borders.  Here on an American Library Association platform (on Facebook) they compare kids wanting to be dinosaurs and superheroes to drag queens.  Librarian Jennie Audrey gets triggered by seeing someone opposing drag queens for kids in a Canadian library and reacts by asking the 54.2K+ members of the ALA Facebook closed group called Library Think Tank - #ALATT to "outnumber the negative comments with positive comments and support this librarian providing access to a Drag program."  They do.  You see, librarians have a hidden network to collude with each other how to better s3xualize and propagandize more children.  This is just one such example.

The person about whom she complains, Marco Moreau, says,

Hello family and friends!  If you would like to email or contact the Parkhill library or the lady who is putting on a “story time for all ages” by a drag queen please respectfully email

lbrock@middlesex.ca

Or call

519-294-6583

People can do as they please but my children would like to learn there abc’s and 123’s not be influenced they can magically be turned into a girl or boy at the ages of “story time” I’d assume 3-8 years of age.

I say this with no offence but there is much more children of that age, should be taking in.  If my son told me he wanted to be Batman for a day,he would want too and possibly, me letting him would possibly influence him into thinking he was Batman for years.

What agenda they are pushing is unfair to children and parents who allow it are sick in the head.

# letchildrenbechildren!

So Jennie Aubrey writes to start the bullying process:

Hi all,

I saw this shared by a "friend" and I am disappointed.  Hoping we can instead outnumber the negative comments with positive comments on this post and support this librarian providing access to a Drag program.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159568910904103&id=518134102&set-a.399131329102%40eav=AfYTWb_doEhAGphnBA2A9Kgc5dF26feW8kvTm1jjbWvEOIGvQfMmLxOpFkPZ7QCNopc&paipv=0&source=48

There then follows a lot of comments, including these, just the tip of the iceberg on bullying and gaslighting and astroturfing that is so typical of librarians:

Jamie Keller

Don't dress as a bat, man, that might make you trans-ylvanian.

Taryn DeeCee

Ahh yes.  This is why we've historically seen just tons of children who dressed up as superheroes or princesses or dinosaurs, for say a birthday party or Halloween, decided that they  were superheroes and princesses and dinosaurs for years.  Because children notoriously do not understand costumes and have never ever in the history of all time played dress up.  🙄 (Heavy sarcasm, btw)

Erin Matlin

I say we email this director with words of support and encouragement.  Let her know that we support her.

Christine Clear to Erin Matlin

I just did!

Misty Wyscarver

Here is the comment I left on his two posts:::::

Marco Moreau, I'm so sorry that you have been lied to about Drag Queen Story Hours.  They aren't sex parties in front of children.  They aren't grooming workshops with the goal of making your child LGBTQIA.  Please stop believing that there is some hidden sexual agenda.  There isn't.  Anyone telling you that there is, is lying to you and setting you up to be a political pawn.

Story Hours- and I mean all story hours have the goals of establishing early childhood literacy skills and reading readiness.  They also enhance social skills by allowing children to interact....

Katrina Stokes

Ah, the irony of someone using the "place of learning" argument but doesn't know the difference between *there* and *their*.

Anna Nellis

Because everyone knows letting your kid pretend to be Batman for a day is a slippery slope that can lead to them being confused forever 🙄

That's why all of my childhood Halloween costumes became lifelong, identity shifting obsessions.  God, the amount of therapy it took to convince me I wasn't Nala from the Lion King...

Katrina Stokes to Anna Nellis

right??  I should be a warrior, a princess or  MFing dragon!!!

Anna Nellis to Katrina Stokes

unfortunately the fact that I went as a witch multiple times DOES track tbh 😂

You can go to Marco Moreau's post to see the librarians here are harassing him there.  For example, Misty Wyscarver says, "Really?  The stupidity is coming from your narrow, hateful minds.  You don’t realize how ridiculous and ignorant you make yourselves appear."

Oh, this is precious, Misty adds:

For generations more genders have been recognized than just the binary.  Native Americans recognized those referred to as two- spirit.  In India the Hijra are recognized as the third gender meaning they are neither completely male or female.  Please visit the library and research it.  There are more than XX XY genders.  There are XXY and XYY medically recognized.  There also intersex people who are born with both genitalia.

I am not the problem.  Ignorance is the problem.

This is what librarians do to push their way into community after community.  They use an ALA-provided centralized means of communication to send out the bat signal, organize, then attack.  Also across borders.  And this is happening in your own community even if you don't realize it, precisely because it's done in hidden ways, in this case a private/closed Facebook group that people/parents cannot see, as this instance illustrates.

The above information is so fresh that people are still writing comments there even now.

So there's the latest, freshest example of librarians using an ALA platform to bully parents opposing drag queens s3xualizing children—even in Canada.

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Drag Queen Story Hour Harms Children Says Senator Rubio; Cancel All DQSH From All American Libraries

Drag Queen Story Hour harms children, says US Senator Marco Rubio.  The issue arose when Ramstein Air Base library advertised for "Drag Queen Story Hour" for children.  

The point here is that if children are harmed, then the activity is blocked by law from public libraries that requires library activities be for the use and benefit of the public (as I've previously reported), and the statements by a US Senator make clear Drag Queen Story Hour is harmful.  As such it violates library laws, so it is time to dismantle and preclude all such shows throughout American public libraries.  

Here are specific statements made by Senator Rubio showing Drag Queen Story Hour is harmful to children:

1. "politically divisive event"
2. "gross abuse of taxpayer funding to place children in a sexualized environment"
3. "It is completely insane for Ramstein AFB to use on-installation resources for rituals like 'Drag Queen Story Time.'  These inappropriate events are extremely divisive at home for good reason; in all cases, they place young children in close proximity with adults who are intentionally and explicitly sexualized."
4. "decisions over children and their bodies should be left to moms and dads serving our nation, not mediated through publicly funded propaganda on U.S. Air Force bases"
5. "children are being exposed to sexually charged content"
6. "extraordinarily divisive events involving the children of U.S. servicemembers"

So a US Senator now says Drag Queen Story Hour harms children.

The only obstacle to stopping DQSH grooming in public libraries is groomer librarians standing in the way claiming FReadom and inclusion.  Don't let them.  Treat them as one treats groomers giving out candy in a playground then providing smut.

Just to be very clear, there is no way librarians are not specifically targeting children for sexualization:

1. Mainwaring, Doug. “Top US Library Group Colludes With Local Librarians to ‘Sneak’ LGBT Content to Kids.” LifeSite (blog), June 18, 2019. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-us-library-group-colludes-with-local-librarians-to-sneak-lgbt-content-to-kids/.
2. Pullmann, Joy. “21,460 Attend Library Conference Featuring Workshops On Drag Queens And Queering Elementary Schools.” The Federalist, July 10, 2019. https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/10/21460-librarians-attend-major-conference-featuring-workshops-drag-queens-queering-elementary-schools/.
3. Kraft, John, and Kirk Allen. “Dunlap Library District Punished Employees Who Reported Suspected Child Porn Viewing.” Illinois Leaks (blog), May 27, 2022. https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2022/05/dunlap-library-district-punished-employees-who-reported-suspected-child-porn-viewing/.
4. Rosiak, Luke. “Cops Probe After Middle School Librarian Allegedly Says Students Are ‘Sex Workers’ To Justify Pro-Prostitution Book.” The Daily Wire, May 28, 2022. https://www.dailywire.com/news/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book.
5. Rosiak, Luke. “Texas Library Association Conference Features a Drag Queen and Ibram Kendi.” The Daily Wire, April 26, 2022 [NOTE: I am cited in this report]. https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-library-association-conference-features-a-drag-queen-and-ibram-kendi.
6.    Kleinman, Dan. “Brave Librarian Speaks Out as ALA Facilitates CHILD Porn.” SafeLibraries® (blog), January 21, 2017. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2017/01/brave-librarian-speaks-out.html.

Back to Ramstein AFB, don't worry about the librarians there complaining they cannot sexualize children with Drag Queen Story Hour.  They will find other ways to target children, like with the "Gender Queer" book prominently displayed at the top of all others in the base library as shown in the graphic below, a book that is being removed from public schools due to the graphic displays including of a boy giving a Lewinsky to a man—and there's a direct reference to kink dot com, a BDSM site.  Indeed, a judge has ruled as obscene the very book most prominently displayed in the military base's library:

• Willis, Carl. “‘Doesn’t Mean the Books Are Banned’: Va. Judge Rules Pair of Books Obscene for Kids.” WJLA-ABC7, May 19, 2022. https://wjla.com/news/local/virginia-judge-books-obscene-banned-kids-school-district-ban-library-gender-queer-court-mist-fury-sexual-content-barnes-noble-fairfax.

So while our military men and women are defending freedom, military base librarians are defiling their children.  Good thing the harmful DQSH indoctrination was stopped but it looks like the librarian groomers themselves need to be removed.  Don't feel guilty about stopping groomer librarians.  Just do it.

And expect librarians to play the guilt game, the inclusion game.  They are already doing it.  

As Libby Emmons reported, Melissa Kay @mellyliveshere from Ramstein Air Base said, "We're being forced to cancel all drag events on Ramstein due to a minority of people that have nothing to do with our base or community.  Inclusive my ass Air Force."  It's a minority of people who push sexualization of children in public libraries in the first place, not a minority who force cancellation of drag events—that's what most would do if they could.  Nice attempt at framing.  Setting that aside, notice she makes a plea for inclusiveness then uses it to hammer the US Air Force.  "Trans" inclusion has or should have nothing to do with the sexualization of children; only groomers argue otherwise.

In reality, librarians are anything but inclusive.  The call for inclusiveness is just another crow bar to slip in more sexualization of more children.  To demonstrate how librarians are anything but inclusive, see how black librarians where forced out of their jobs in libraries due to the racism that has been inherent in public libraries and the American Library Association from the beginning and that continues to this day. 

Black #librarians describe in detail why they quit their #lisjobs: #racism within #libraries. @BC_ALA @ALALibrary pushes #DEI into schools but itself was and is #racist.#parenting #moms #dads #edchat #alaac22 #ALATogetherAgain #FReadom #diversity #equity #inclusion https://t.co/T1hdF4CFB6

— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® 🟧 (@SexHarassed) May 27, 2022

Notice even in that Library Journal article the emphasis was on mentoring, not deep-seated racism.  The real story was the inherent racism in librarianship driving black librarians out of the "profession," but Library Journal buried that lede because true inclusion is of no use to librarians, except to the extent it could be used as a cudgel.

No, librarians are not inclusive.  It's just more virtue signaling and more excuses to inure people to allowing librarians to sexualize children in libraries, or as Senator Marco Rubio put it, "intentionally and explicitly sexualized."

In summary, Drag Queen Storytime is harmful to children, even Senator Marco Rubio says so, and as such it is illegal in public libraries.  Librarians saying otherwise are groomers, the very people who should not only be ignored but actively removed from any position dealing with children. 

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LIST OF REFERENCES REGARDING

ILLEGAL AND CANCELLED DQSH AT RAMSTEIN AIR BASE:

Emmons, Libby. “US Air Force Base Holds Drag Queen Story Hour For Kids.” The Post Millennial, May 24, 2022. https://thepostmillennial.com/us-air-force-base-holds-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids.

Howley, Patrick. “EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Air Force Base Hosts Drag Queen Story Time; What Is Going On?” National File (blog), May 24, 2022. https://nationalfile.com/breaking-u-s-air-force-base-hosts-drag-queen-story-time/.

Johnston, Elizabeth. “Air Force Cancels ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ for Airmen’s Children At Germany Base.” Elizabeth Johnston (blog), May 27, 2022. https://elizabethjohnston.org/air-force-cancels-drag-queen-story-time-for-airmens-children-at-germany-base/.

Lamb, Matt. “US Air Force Base Cancels Drag Queen Story Time After Public Outrage.” LifeSite (blog), May 27, 2022. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/u-s-air-force-base-cancels-drag-queen-story-hour-after-media-attention/.

Levesque, Brody. “‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Axed by USAF Base- Sen. Rubio Takes Credit.” Los Angeles Blade: LGBTQ News, Rights, Politics, Entertainment (blog), May 27, 2022. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/05/27/drag-queen-story-hour-axed-by-usaf-base-sen-rubio-takes-credit/.

RT World News. “US Base to Host ‘Drag Queens’ For Children; The Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany Has Announced a ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ Event.” RT International, May 24, 2022. https://www.rt.com/news/556032-ramstein-drag-queen-story-time/.

Rubio, Marco. “Air Force Cancels ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ for Kids After Rubio Demands.” U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio, May 27, 2022. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/5/air-force-cancels-drag-queen-story-time-for-kids-after-rubio-demands.

Vandiver, John. “Air Force Wing Nixes Drag Queen Reading Event for Children at Ramstein Library, Drawing LGBTQ Supporters’ Ire.” Stars and Stripes. Accessed May 27, 2022. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-05-27/drag-queen-ramstein-air-base-6147832.html.

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Library Bill of Rights Means 'Nothing': Berry v. Yosemite Community College District

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the American Library Association's so-called "Library Bill of Rights" actually means "nothing to indicate that there would be a private cause of action based upon a violation."  It is "not a federal statute."  Rather, it is "an unambiguous statement of principles that should govern the service of all libraries" that is "promulgated by the American Library Association."

In other words, when your local librarians cite the Library Bill of Rights as if it were some hard and fast rule of law equivalent to the Bill of Rights, or when your library board of trustees incorporates it into its own policy statements, you'll know four things—1) that's fake, 2) the Library Bill of Rights is meaningless in your community since it comes from ALA and not from your local law, or any law for that matter, 3) that's a sort of bullying by puffing up a mere promulgation of ALA as it if were real law, and you're labeled as the censor if you don't obey or if you insist that local law trumps a "statement of principles" from some organization based in Chicago, IL, and 4) they are hiding something.

It implies, for example, that it would be age discrimination to keep children from material inappropriate for them.  In reality, it's perfectly appropriate, and that's why Judith Krug and her ALA lost in the US Supreme Court where the Court said unanimously in United States v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003), "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."

ALA, on the other hand, says, "V. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of ... age...."  See the difference?  By the way, the "V." is to give the appearance of legal legitimacy akin to the real Bill of Rights.

So, almost literally, a court has ruled ALA's so-called Library Bill of Rights means nothing, except to ALA itself and its members.

It is more of an "aspirational creed" than anything else: Reality Bites: The Collision of Rhetoric, Rights, and Reality and the Library Bill of Rights.

Here's what the United States District Court judge said about ALA's Library Bill of Rights in Berry v. Yosemite Community College District, Case No. 1:18-cv-00172-LJO-SAB. (E.D. Cal. Apr. 17, 2018):

E. Library Bill of Rights 

Plaintiff contends that Defendants violated Article III of the Code of Ethics of the Library Bill of Rights because they did not take the necessary legal steps before breaching her confidential library records and reporting them in the joint status report. However, the Code of Ethics of the Library Bill of Rights is not a federal statute, but is promulgated by the American Library Association. The Library Bill of Rights is an unambiguous statement of principles that should govern the service of all libraries. While the documents represent the polices of the American Library Association, there is nothing to indicate that there would be a private cause of action based upon a violation. See Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights available at http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations (last visited April 16, 2018).

Which reminds me.  Libraries assert the Library Bill of Rights is the reason for allowing Drag Queen Story Hour to proceed.  But as we've seen the Library Bill of Rights means nothing.  What does mean something is the law that created the library.  Such laws require libraries to act for the benefit of the public, and Drag Queen Story Time actually harms the public, so it's against the law and can be stopped by application of the law—if people were only aware of the law.  But librarians don't want you to know that, that your own library law may preclude Drag Queen Story Hour.  They only want you to know about the Library Bill of Rights that in reality means nothing.  Isn't that interesting?  Makes you think.  This is what they are hiding by asserting the Library Bill of Rights, namely, that local laws controls, not some aspirational creed of an out-of-state organization.  See, for example:

• "How To Remove Drag Queen Story Hour From Libraries, Part 1: FOIA Library Law," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 5 August 2019.

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ALA Pushes Drag Queen Story Hour at ALA Annual Conference

American Library Association pushes Drag Queen Story Hour at its biggest conference, ALA Annual, by training librarians to push it into communities nationwide.  Notice, no mention of literacy—just intersectionality, no mention of unvetted drag queens turning out to be pedophiles like at Houston Public Library, no mention of how DQSH harms the LGBT community, but there's the Office for Intellectual Freedom "expanding boundaries" at this training session with the Assistant Director (a nice person individually) as a speaker.

I am writing about the pervasiveness of ALA's DQSH promotion, or DQS as they call it, so stay tuned here.

Telling Stories, Expanding Boundaries:

Drag Queen Storytimes in Libraries

Saturday, June 22 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Location: Washington Convention Center, 147B

"This session will explore the public library as a site for the intersection of gender expression/identity and intellectual freedom, by discussing the phenomenon of Drag Queen Storytime (DGS). The session will consist of a panel featuring originators of the DGS concept; librarians whose institutions have been involved in DGS, with both the popularity and the controversy that have ensued; and a local drag queen storyteller who will read a story to the audience. The DGS program has been immensely popular with many audiences at libraries across the country, but it has also produced its share of resistance and controversy. The panel will discuss how DGS was developed and originally implemented, how librarians have been using it today, how institutions have dealt with specific successes and controversies, and how DGS relates to intellectual freedom."

Source (archived), linked from here: "Que(e)ry's Coming to ALA Annual in Washington D.C.!"

“Telling Stories, Expanding Boundaries: Drag Queen Storytimes in Libraries” a @queeryparty #alaac19 event https://t.co/TyqO2Htcl5

SHOWS @ALALibrary DIRECTLY PROMOTES #DragQueenStoryHour: @OIF’s @KPekoll = speaker.@activist_mommy @toddstarnes @IngrahamAngle @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/akC3ffDGPu

— Dan Kleinman (@SafeLibraries) June 21, 2019

NOTE ADDED AN HOUR LATER:

What is interesting is that they are holding a panel about DQSH, when in fact they are outrighting supporting it. They want to appear to show concern via debate panel. On the contrary, the ALA champions this indocrination platform.

— Kyle (@CCLibrarianLV) June 21, 2019

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