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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Freedom to Read Act Incorporation Into School Policy Eliminates Local Control

Dear North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Members,


For weather-related reasons, I will not attend the Board of Education meeting Tuesday, January 27, 2026.  But I hereby submit comments nonetheless for your consideration.  I see you are having a "first reading."  So I suppose my comments would apply to that or to a possible "second reading."


[Read the 11pp proposed policy 6163.1 here.]

[Watch NHV BOE discuss the policy here.]


Easy suggestion first.  I'd like to tell you my experience obtaining the policy on the agenda so you can know how some might view it, or actually not view it, which is the problem I'll be addressing.


It did indeed take a bit of rooting around to finally find the page having the agenda.  Then the agenda says, "First Reading of Policy."  It's too general.  What policy?  It's under "Policy and School Security," so that tells me almost nothing.  I took a gamble and clicked on the link.  No real notice went to the public other than "first reading of policy."  It's almost like it's sneaking in or perhaps being hidden from people like me.  Only then did I finally see "Policy 6163.1 – Media Center/Library" and the changes to be made, then only if I scrolled down to the next page.  You really have to dig and maneuver to get to the point where you finally get the notice you should already have had from the agenda but it's not there.  The problem with this is, besides not providing notice in an understandable form, people who are casually involved in school workings may not ever get to the point of being properly noticed, while the regulars who already know one has to root around are at a significant advantage over casual viewers.  You could be discouraging casual viewers, let alone not providing adequate notice.  So that's just a suggestion for you to consider.


Another easy suggestion.  Existing policy requires people to state their name and address and affiliation, if any, before speaking.  At least in other states, that's a violation of state and federal constitutional rights to seek redress of the government and attorneys general have forced public bodies to drop such requirements.  Further, in modern times, that exposes people to potential harassment, and it gets recorded on video, so the exposure is perpetual.  American Library Association members, for example, file OPRA/FOIA requests for such information, then it is used in lawsuits, movies, whatever.  Such information should be clear that it is optional, not required.  Who knows, it might even cut back on the need to respond to OPRA requests if the information is simply not collected in the first place, thereby reducing any costs in researching and replying to such requests.


Now regarding the 6163.1 proposed media center, library policy:


1) The policy allows for electronic databases to be used, and they should.  However, some of these databases expose children to inappropriate material not allowed if such material were purchased in print for the school library.  The proposed policy does not account for that and it should.


2) The policy states, "Every student shall have access to a media collection containing materials appropriate to age level...."  Gender Queer is "age appropriate" but it otherwise is what Pico calls "pervasively vulgar or otherwise educationally unsuitable" so it may be removed from the library.  Playboy would be age appropriate, for example.  That is a weakness in the policy.  The policy would allow Gender Queer while Board of Education v. Pico, U.S. Supreme Court 1982 holds the exact opposite result and the book would be removed.


3) The former version of the policy said, "The superintendent has final responsibility for the selection of media center materials by professionally trained personnel including media specialists, teachers, principals and supervisors."  That's being removed.  The new policy eliminates the Superintendent and substitutes therefor the school librarian.  Under Pico, the Superintendent has the authority to immediately remove material that is pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable.  No review committee would be needed, saving everyone a ton of time and money.  Under the new policy, the school librarian now makes the decisions, not the Superintendent.  That eliminates the protections of Pico.  Further, nothing at all will ever be deemed as inappropriate by school librarians, other than works by conservatives or dead white males, a term I get from American Library Association directives.  The former school librarian for example, Martha Hickson, testified in Trenton, as shown in the new American Library Association film called "The Librarians," that, "in my professional role, there is no p*rn*graphy for minors in, uh, school libraries so there is no need to restrict it.  Book restrictions are, however, a form of censorship.  Your personal opinion about obscenity does not make it so."  Martha Hickson goes on to say, in response to what a legislator said, "fifth graders *have* p*nises."  So the change in the policy to eliminate the Superintendent and substitute in the school librarian will ensure that nothing ever gets removed.  Voting for this policy change is like voting for anything goes in the school library.  Librarians are trained by American Library Association that nothing is ever p*rn*graphy because only a lawyer or a judge can make that decision, and, as Martha Hickson testified, it will be claimed it's censorship to remove such material.


4) The policy does not disclose that Pico applies and California v. Miller, U.S. Supreme Court 1973, does not apply to school books.  The "as a whole" standard comes from the Miller case.  Miller does not apply in schools.  Pico does.  So, for example, a school may remove Gender Queer from a school library for being pervasively vulgar and/or educationally unsuitable.  Indeed Pico has been used repeatedly to remove that very book successfully.  Miller, on the other hand, would require Gender Queer to stay in the library, since "as a whole" it is not obscene, and only a judge can rule it as such anyway.  So under Pico, a Superintendent may remove Gender Queer immediately, and under Miller, Gender Queer will never be removed.  No book ever will be removed under Miller since Miller is almost never used to determine works to be obscene.  It would be a ridiculous endeavor since a case by case basis would be needed, precisely the reason why American Library Association holds it out as the gold standard when in reality it does not apply.


5) The policy is essentially a restatement of the NJ Freedom to Read Act, a law that will eventually be challenged and fail since it overrides Pico and N.J.S. 2C:34-3 Obscenity for Persons Under 18, at a minimum.  So I'll save the time of laying it out instance by instance but the comparison with FTRA shows it is essentially a copy, and FTRA was written by American Library Association in Chicago, IL.  Board members have an ethical duty to apply local law, not material written by outside special interests groups like American Library Association.  For example, the diversity and inclusion language as defined by American Library Association and included in the proposed policy and FTRA would make it so Gender Queer may not be removed, despite Pico, despite 2C:34-3.  So yet again, the policy ensures children will, by policy, be exposed to material that could otherwise be removed or not purchased, but for the policy.  As if the policy overrides New Jersey law and the U.S. Supreme Court.


6) The policy's removal request procedure is one recommended by American Library Association to intentionally a) drag out the process, b) cost money, c) provide the excuse that book reconsiderations waste money, d) asks leading questions of requesters to get them to say things not relevant to the review but that can be used to sink their request, e) unnecessarily narrows the pool of potential complainants.  I'm surprised it didn't put a multi-year limit on again requesting a review since Martha Hickson said it should be five years precisely to eliminate the constitutional rights to seek redress of the government for four years.


7) The inclusion of the parent in the review committee is an American Library Association ruse.  It's to make parents think their input is included.  In reality, however a parent votes, it is always overridden by the rest of the committee.  It's a ruse.  In a Florida case, three parents did a comprehensive review of three books and decided two stay but one goes.  They wrote a full report.  The committee ruled to keep all books without even considering the parents' input for which they worked so hard as part of the committee.  When the parents asked why their hard work was not even considered, the librarian on the committee said it wouldn't have mattered since the rest of the committee voted to retain all three books.  This is the very ruse that this new policy embeds.  I guarantee you all parental input on the committee will be ignored.  This will be at least the third way that absolutely nothing will ever be removed from the school library.  And it is all because Chicago's ALA has been working towards this goal for over 60 years.  If you vote for this policy, you vote for Chicago ALA policy and your kids will be harmed.  ALA is getting the school to play all these games at whatever time and expense just to cover up that nothing will ever be removed from the library.  Just skip over the charade and make the policy say nothing will ever be removed from the library, so don't ask, and don't complain, and that's it.  Done.


8) The policy says challenged material stays on the shelves until the challenge is finalized.  That language comes directly from American Library Association.  This is now a fourth way the children will remain exposed to inappropriate material despite Pico, 2C:34-3, and the Superintendent's previous ability to immediately remove materials under Pico.


9) The policy exempts from criminal and civil liability school librarians who violate 2C:34-3. By policy, poof, 2C:34-3 disappears.  Pico disappears.  Superintendents making appropriate decisions under Pico, poof, gone.  All by the proposed policy.


10) The policy does not cover the communications of the school librarian.  Former school librarian Martha Hickson used her personal Twitter account to conduct school business.  She even provided training to librarians nationwide while recording on school grounds presumably during school time specifically telling them to direct message her on her personal Twitter account.  Multiple OPRA requests for her communications were easily defeated by claiming there's no control over her personal accounts and she otherwise has no emails to disclose--because she did everything on her personal account.  That cannot be allowed to happen again.  Require that school business is conducted on school-supplied resources for the board's own good and for proper compliance with open government and records retention laws.  Consider making persistently conducting school business on personal accounts a terminable offense.  Librarians are trained to use Slack and Signal to circumvent parents, legislators, and the courts.  That must not be allowed and can be precluded by policy.  It should be added to the proposed policy, although it suffers from so much that it should be defeated.  Sure, let them use personal accounts for personal goals and friendships and general librarianship growth, but for school-related communications, that should be precluded.  Martha Hickson, for example, regularly communicated school business via her personal accounts with American Library Association.  That is precisely why 400 people came to school board meetings and overwhelmed the four locals, two of which now appear derisively in "The Librarians" by American Library Association.  The ALA president even gave a speech to all ALA membership that Martha Hickson was super important in ALA's imposing its way in North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School.  All done without any records exposed to open government laws or retained under government retention laws.  That has to be stopped.  If anyone wishes to engage American Library Association about school business, it must be via use of school communications means subject to New Jersey laws and board policy.


11) The policy doesn't even address the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, a significant U.S. Supreme Court decision from June 27, 2025, addressing parental rights, religious freedom, and the use of certain books in public elementary schools. Public schools cannot compel young children to participate in instruction or exposure to materials that interfere with religious upbringing in a significant way. The Court emphasized parental rights in directing the religious and moral development of their children.  American Library Association hates that case.  That's why it's not in the proposed policy.  The only parental rights present are a ruse, as previously stated.


12) "In selecting materials to recommend for purchase, the media specialist shall evaluate the existing collection and consult reputable, unbiased, professionally prepared selection aids, and specialists from all departments and/or all grade levels." This is specifically designed to use only reviews from ALA-approved sources including ALA's own Booklist.  It is specifically designed to disallow consideration of reviews from parental groups like RatedBooks dot org.  It embeds into the policy an anti parent policy. Did you know that ALA hated BookLooks dot org so much (a parental review site that no longer exists) that it created its own Book Résumés that's just like BookLooks only without the excerpts and graphics but with all the glowing reviews from the approved book review sites?  Did you know it was Martha Hickson who initially used NHV time, money, and servers to build what eventually got adopted by ALA as the new Book Résumés site?  So the proposed policy includes yet again another subtle but present anti parent policy.


13) Limiting access to children to developmentally appropriate material is not censorship.  


14) Books may have s*xualized content but it's not noted in Scholastic reviews and the like.  The policy does not address that.  


15) Nor does the policy address librarians making available websites that provide access to the very material school policy otherwise precludes.


So what we have in the new policy is the wording from the Freedom to Read Act from Chicago's American Library Association that has been working for 60-plus years to eliminate parental rights and indoctrinate children, crystallized into a policy that was essentially hidden on the agenda page, all to ensure children by policy get indoctrinated and s*xua*lized per ALA diktat.  And the policy lacks significant protections and allowances for parental rights.


I have no clue who came up with the wording for the proposed changes, but that person or those persons did what's best for American Library Association, and the school children be damned.


Don't be angry with the way I worded things or what other board members may say about me.  Set that aside.  For the children, consider what I have said and consider if you really truly want this proposed policy 6163.1 to be applied to your school and your school children and your school parents.  


Your policy should allow your Superintendent to remove books like Gender Queer and if it doesn't, something's off.  Recall the whole multi-year battle over the books started when the Superintendent told Martha Hickson to remove a certain book, and Martha Hickson went immediately to American Library Association, got them instantly engaged, then intimidated the Superintendent into backing down from his request.  The ALA bullying was nonstop after that.  And it continues to this day with the proposed wording of policy 6163.1.


Thank you for your anticipated consideration of these matters.


Dan Kleinman


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Dear NHV Board of Ed,

I hereby add additional information based on new information just received, then one additional comment.

Beth Bourne has published on X https://x.com/bourne_beth2345/status/2015961359180300604?s=61 that the California Freedom to Read Act is causing librarians to admit nothing will ever again be removed from a library no matter how inappropriate.  She includes a video of the librarians not caring a whit about harm to the children.  

This is directly applicable to proposed policy 6163.1 since the proposed policy is essentially a mini version of the New Jersey Freedom to Read Act.  So you can see the similarity between the California and the New Jersey version, because American Library Association wrote them both, and whomever wrote the proposed policy also inserted the American Library Association wish list that means "no restrictions for children."

As I stated in my original email this morning, the proposed policy implements the NJ FTRA so it will ensure school children are indoctrinated and s*xualized per ALA via NHV BOE school policy.

Here is what Beth Bourne wrote, an analogous confirmation from a California public library:

🚨🚨UNREAL: Yesterday I asked the indoctrinated far-left librarians in Davis why they want kids to access s[*]xually-explicit books that encourage p[*]rn consumption, like “Let’s Talk About It.”

The library manager said the recent passing of “California Freedom to Read Act” (AB 1825) means no restrictions for children.
 
The librarians also seemed fine with predatory men self-identifying into the Women’s Restroom.

To prove the stupidity of the policy, I identified as a man and walked into the Men’s Restroom.

You can’t hate @GavinNewsom and @TheDemocrats enough. 
“The California Freedom to Read Act (AB 1825), signed in September 2024 and effective January 2025, requires public libraries receiving state funds to adopt written collection development policies by January 1, 2026, to prevent book bans.

It prohibits removing materials based on topics or views, protects library staff from retaliation, and forbids restricting access based on age or background.”

Why do children need to be indoctrinated into radical queer theory and transgenderism?
Davis branch library in Yolo County, CA near Sacramento.

While I am writing with that new information, here is an additional problem with the proposed policy.

16)  Policy 6163.1 should provide for parents what the librarians and school teachers already have, namely, access to a database of all holdings in the school library and all holdings in classroom libraries, sorted by classroom.  Full transparency is the key here.  How can parents exercise constitutional rights if they are kept in the dark about school and classroom library contents?  Martha Hickson even put up black paper on the library windows to prevent anyone from looking in.  I entered the library once for a few minutes when it was open and was accused of criminal activity for breaking into the library after hours, supposedly.  Why the secrecy?  Why the reaction if gosh forbid a parent gets inside the library?  Why the OPRA request for library security camera videos to see the alleged crime?  How will parents know what's in the library if some policy does not require full access and if the library windows and classroom libraries are kept out of sight?

And this suggestion is also based on new information since I wrote this morning:

17) Policy 6163.1 should include a means to perform appropriate background checks on possible school librarian candidates, including psychological examinations.  Times have changed and librarians have turned dark.  Such people should be weeded out.  I won't list names but one librarian has just been arrested for threatening the President.  Another one threatened the President but has not yet been arrested.  Others threaten Elon Musk with death.  School librarians.  Martha Hickson herself posted about 8647, so yet another threat to the President, right from the former school librarian who first ran to American Library Association and caused all the problems in the first place.  Granted she was retired at the time of the threat.  A library director in Louisiana was recorded days ago telling a patron that her "d*ck" was bigger than his so he should "s*ck" hers.  Multiple librarians are involved in what's called ICE protests but is really part of a planned insurrection against the American government.  Oh yes, Martha Hickson is one.  Such people should not be hired.  The policy should weed them out, perhaps even allow for their removal if such behavior occurs during employment.  Any investigation should include their social media.  Many adults working in the public school system suffer from one or more mental health issues.  The proposed policy leaves out that these kinds of people should not be anywhere near children, and there's no mention of anything at all to prevent such possible disasters.  The Boy Scouts say "Be Prepared."  The proposed changes to policy 6163.1 leaves on the blindfolds.

Thank you for these additional considerations.  You're in charge.  You need to do the right thing now by setting appropriate policy.  The proposed policy is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Some Media Smear Parents, Laud School Librarians Indoctrinating Kids

Some media smear parents, laud school librarians indoctrinating kids.  Mike Deak for Courier News, top right (photo credit), obviously took whatever a school librarian said as truth and made zero effort to search out the truth of what he was being told, in my opinion.  I'm certain many parents know exactly what I'm talking about.

So here is a response I wrote to Mike Deak and USA Today that needs to know how such "journalists" are damaging their brand by violating their ethics code.

I never got a response from either.

Mr. Deak


Greetings Mr. Deak,

I'm Dan Kleinman.  You just wrote a story about me and my businesses, that are not related to the ethics matter that I brought as an individual, that is partly false and possibly defamatory, neither is it journalistic.  

Further, your news story was photographed and posted on Bluesky by former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson who added a description to a photo (ALT text) calling me "Dan Klownman."  See:

Given your story's content, it appears to me to have been sourced from Martha Hickson, a person who harasses me on a near weekly basis and who disparages my businesses on a near monthly basis.  

Is there a means by which people can officially request corrections in the Courier News?  I'll provide you with some context and see if you voluntarily correct the story.

Here's the story: 
"BOE is Cleared of Ethics Charges Over Book Banning," by Mike Deak, Courier News, 1 October 2025, p.1, above the fold.

"Eight present and former members of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education have been cleared of ethics charges that they were influenced by special interest groups in a controversy over whether a book should be removed from the North Hunterdon High School Library."

That is deceptive.  The book is really not the issue, only the underlying reason potential ethics violations were exposed, and those violations are the real issue.  This is accurate:

"Eight present and former members of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education have been cleared of ethics charges that they were influenced by special interest groups in a controversy over whether they were guided by a special interest group in violation of ethics laws, made advanced promises to vote a certain way before being elected, another violation of the law, and leaked information to certain members of the public, a third violation of the law."

The following is defamatory, and it's how you describe me to your audience, as if written by Martha Hickson who regularly defames me and my businesses for at least a year:

"For more than a decade, Kleinman, based in Chatham, has waged a national campaign on what he believes are inappropriate books and websites in schools. He is also executive director of the World Library Association, an alternative to the American Library Association which he has called 'terrorist friendly, child unfriendly, and dishonest/unethical.'"

"Waged a national campaign"?  I am a parent responding to an approximately 60 year effort by a special interest group from Chicago, IL, American Library Association, to promote age inappropriate material to children.  See: 
Koganzon, Rita. “There Is No Such Thing as a Banned Book: Censorship, Authority, and the School Book Controversies of the 1970s.” American Political Thought 12, no. 1 (January 2023): 1–26. 

World Library Association has nothing to do with this case I filed individually.  Yet you introduce it by labeling it "an alternative to the American Library Association which he has called 'terrorist friendly, child unfriendly, and dishonest/unethical.'"  That's defamatory.  You definitely got that from the person defaming me and my businesses for years.  

WLA was formed two years ago, yet your quote is from 2011, fourteen years ago.  Further, had you yourself looked at the quote, you would have seen it was based on a New York Times story in which the patron privacy rights of one of the 9/11 terrorists who killed thousands of Americans were defending by ALA's "Office for Intellectual Freedom" and "Freedom to Read Foundation" leader Judith Krug after a Florida librarian turned in a terrorist's presence to the police. See: 

So it's an accurate statement to say ALA is terrorist friendly, and it is based on a New York Times story where the ALA leader defended the patron privacy rights of a 9/11 terrorist to use a public library computer to learn how to better kill more Americans.  Had you had that context and been a real journalist, I bet you would have excluded that smear of one of my businesses.

Similarly, I gave extensive primary sources proving the other assertions I made long ago that are now presented by you without context in a way that disparages my business.  Here are those sources, if they haven't aged out over time:

Contrast how you introduced me to your readers with how you introduced Martha Hickson: "Former school librarian Martha Hickson was given the American Library Association's 2022 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity for her efforts to keep the books in the library."

Clear bias right there in your news story.  I supposedly waged a national campaign assumedly falsely calling the American Library Association is terrorist friendly, which it is, while Martha Hickson is an award winning librarian, which she got from ALA to promote how she harmed school children with age inappropriate material that may even violate NJ 2C:34-3 Obscenity for Persons Under 18--the very law the school board explicitly overrode to follow instead the advice of special interest group from Chicago, American Library Association.  

You didn't introduce me in a similar fashion.  You could have said, for example, that Ernest Istook, the author of the Children's Internet Protection Act, described me as a "trusted source" on the issue of how the American Library Association misleads communities about public library law.  See:

It's right at the top of my About Me page but you missed it because you wrote a hit piece, and that's not journalism.  See:

Part of how media manipulates the public is by not presenting information it should.  You have done that.  And it shows again you got your information from Martha Hickson, not from any actual effort at real journalism.  

Had you actually investigated the story, or even asked me for input, you would have known the attorney for the school board, Comegno Law Group, repeatedly violated NJ School Ethics Commission rules--even the Commission's attorney had to interrupt to advise that rules were being broken.  

And where did you miss this information that is entirely relevant to the story?  Right on the Commission's website, the minutes of the August 19, 2025, meeting. A journalist would have made that part of his story.  Instead, I see only a megaphoning of the defamatory statements of Martha Hickson who then implicitly bragged about her getting you to write that story on her Bluesky account by posting it and using it as a platform to again call me Klownman.  Here is the link proving the above directly from the NJ SEC site that you completely missed because you wrote a hit piece, not something journalistic:

And that violation of rules may have been a violation of the NJ Rules of Professional Ethics and it may have been the reason why the Commission decided as it did.  But any potential of that is completely absent from your reporting.

You also missed that one of the Commission's members, Rich Tomko, was hired by the school's superintendent to consult on the Strategic Plan.

As I said earlier, part of how media manipulates the public is by not presenting information it should.

Mike Deak, I'm sure you'll be writing about me again.  I'm forgiving.  Next time pick up a phone and speak with me before blindly publishing agitprop from an American Library Association librarian.  

It might be relevant, for example, that ALA helped Martha Hickson so completely pull the wool over everyone's eyes, so much so that the ALA President bragged about it in her yearly speech to ALA membership about how ALA tools provided to Martha Hickson helped her keep the 2C:34-3 book in the school library.  See:
"ALA Details How It Controls Communities Nationwide: The Quiet Part Out Loud Now In Transcript Form"

(35:07):
And so we know that people are battling back and we are using that platform to pull people together. I was at a a conference and uh Martha Hickson was there who some of you may know as school librarian in New Jersey. And when she faced a challenge at her school through that UABB platform, and other forms of organizing, 400 community members came and joined her to sign, to to stand with her in that moment. [00:35:30] So the United Against Book baba Bans platform facilitates that. Our state chapters are using uh OneClickPolitics®, a tool that comes from our Chapter Relations Office and from uh the Washington Office to organize locally. We know that local organizing is what wins the day, that ALA can't come in and save places, but what we can do is provide the tools to the people who are on the ground doing that kind of organizing work. We continue to look for ways to expand our work in uh the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

"Mike Deak has worked in Central Jersey journalism for more than four decades.  Our journalists adhere to the USA TODAY NETWORK Principles of Ethical Conduct For Newsrooms."  See:


Not this time.  You violated a lot of those ethics rules.  Read them:

You violated ethics rules, to support a school board potentially improperly cleared of violating ethics rules.  All to keep school children reading inappropriate material that may violate New Jersey obscenity law but doesn't violate American Library Association standards or lack thereof.

All of the above is my opinion.

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Dan Kleinman, Owner of SafeLibraries® brand library educational services

By the Way


By the way, since writing the above, I have learned the NJ School Ethics Commission may have some ethics problems of its own.  We shall see.  

In the meantime, one of the board members formerly under ethical review (Beth Kotran) is running to be reelected by lying about the ethics decision.  I discuss just this at the 28 October 2025 board meeting, seen here:

 
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Thursday, September 4, 2025

FOIA OPRA Request for Comegno Legal Bills and the Daughter Who Reads Almost Every Day

I've had to submit to the North Hunterdon-Voorhees school a FOIA request that in New Jersey is called OPRA.  It's my opinion the taxpayers are getting ripped off by the Comegno Law Group that is billing the school/taxpayers for work it really is did/volunteered for Chicago's American Library Association.  The OPRA is to determine if this is the case.  

Further, an ethics decision may have been biased in an unethical way, indicated to me by the following sentence: "My daughter reads almost every day."  

Here is a Table of Contents/Evidence to support the OPRA request and more, and all evidence is included below:

Table of Contents/Evidence:
  • NJ SEC Scheduling Letter
  • Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting
  • OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills
  • Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25
  • Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25
  • Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group

Below is that OPRA request, but first is some information I reference in the OPRA request, namely, the scheduling letter from the NJ School Ethics Commission.  

There is also a transcript of the public comments made at that meeting.  I made the recording and the transcript.  The entire recording is linked below.  To my knowledge, the NJSEC itself makes no such records public, so below is likely the only copy.  You will be told by the people who support American Library Association to ignore me and especially the evidence, the recording.  Will you not read the transcript for yourselves?  Will you not listen?

At the hearing a public statement was read out loud about the imminent public comment portion of the meeting.  That statement included the following admonition:
Parties to a matter currently pending before the Commission are reminded not to publicly litigate the merits of their case.  The Commission's review in the matter will be limited to the written [unintelligible] and any public comments or statements which address the merits of the matter will not be considered by the Commission today.
In the transcript a Commissioner speaks during a break between public comments that, "My daughter reads almost every day."  Cute, right?  Not cute.  It is an indication, at least to me, that he heard what the Comegno attorney argued, then, despite the unethical nature of her comments and her refusal to follow direct verbal direction from the Commission chairman and again from the Commission attorney, he was swayed by her unethical comments.  Why?  Because his takeaway was the importance of libraries and how his daughter enjoys reading almost every day.  I could hear nothing from him about how the Comegno attorney just blew through ethical requirements without a care in the world.  To me, this was the most disheartening part of the hearing and it told me this guy is going to fall for the America / democracy / libraries sob story and decide not to hold the school board responsible for breaking the law.

And should anyone argue the Comegno lawyer's words were simply effective in making a point since the Commissioner was swayed to think of his daughter and her reading thanks to libraries, you don't get or give credit when an attorney achieves a goal in an unethical manner.


I've said this is my opinion, but it's also my opinion anyone looking at the scheduling letter, its red, italicized, and underlined admonition, the public comments and NJSEC's Chairperson's opening statement and NJSEC lawyer's verbal admonition, will come to essentially the same conclusion that Comegno Law Group is draining board/taxpayer money to fund instead volunteer work for the American Library Association that has control over the school board (as my ethics complaint may decide), the legislature that passed the Freedom to Read Act written by ALA (Senator Andrew Zwicker who called me a "meddling minority" told me so directly at a hearing in Trenton), and is now attempting to use taxpayer funds to illegally sway the NJ School Ethics Commission in violation of the New Jersey Rules of Professional Ethics [potentially RPC 3.3(a)(4 & 5); 3.4(c); 3.5(a & c); 8.4(a & c & d)].

Remember, the Comegno Law Group attorney is
  1. experienced in education law practice,
  2. got the 8/12/25 letter not to talk about the case,
  3. heard the opening comments that parties may not talk about the case, discussed the case anyway,
  4. heard the Commission attorney tell her directly to stop talking about the case, but went right on ahead talking anyway to do what she knows not to do and to three times ignore the School Ethics Commission.
Three strikes you're out, yes?  Or no, because librarians are wonderful people who would never hurt anyone, American Library Association is wonderful, its Freedom to Read Act is about liberty and democracy, so the ethics case is moot, nothing to see here, let's move on.

She concluded by directly arguing the merits of the case despite multiple warnings, and even got in the good word for American Library Association's Freedom to Read Act as the reason to defy my ethics complaint by summarizing, "the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books."  They did not act in good faith.  They violated ethics laws, and their attorney violated professional ethics laws, all to keep children exposed to inappropriate material in schools, in my opinion.  

Besides, that Freedom to Read Act was signed into law on December 9, 2024.  The alleged unethical actions taken by the board predated that and the ethics complaint itself was filed on November 4, 2024.  Even the respondents themselves complained in their response, "this matter was initially and incorrectly filed on October 23, 2024."  Gosh forbid a pro se complainant should misfile a complaint without the petty attorney trying to score points because screw justice.  Always the effort to belittle, to attack the messenger, but still, Comegno Law Group knows my ethics complaint predated the passage of the Freedom to Read Act, so summarizing by saying, "the record shows the members acted ... in line with the state law protecting access to books," is not only arguing the merits of the case, but it is deceptively dishonest to argue something that postdated the complaint.  It is factually false.  It might even right there represent an additional violation of yet another professional rule of attorney ethics.  "RPC 8.4. Misconduct; It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:... (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation."  And all after having been warned three times not to discuss the merits of the case, in a matter that may represent another violation of the ethics code.  Had she not violated at least one rule, another rule would not have been violated.  My opinion, of course.

I am publishing all this so the taxpayers and especially the parents at the school can see for themselves exactly what happened at the 8/19/25 NJSEC meeting and how they are being used/sponged off of to promote a Chicago ALA agenda—all to keep school kids subject to ALA's 60 year effort to indoctrinate school children (shown here).  They can also see that local control needs to be restored from ALA's overarching control, such control being so complete that a law firm willingly defied rules of professional conduct, starting with their own school board.  The ALA policy embedded in school policy needs to be removed and books that are pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable per Pico standards need to be summarily removed, Freedom to Read Act notwithstanding.  The US Supreme Court trumps the Chicago American Library Association.

That initial ethics decision will be out in a few weeks.  Let's hope soon afterwards some school board members become ex school board members.

And get rid of that unethical law firm.  What's the problem?  Plenty of ethical lawyers can take their place, do far better, and not rip you off.  My opinion!


NJ SEC Scheduling Letter (red, italic, underlined lettering in original):

12 AUGUST 2025

SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION

August 12, 2025

For Complainant
Dan Kleinman
641 Shunpike Rd #123
Chatham, NJ 07928

For Respondents
John B. Comegno II, Esquire
Giulia Lima, Esq.
Comegno Law Group
521 Pleasant Valley Avenue
Moorestown, NJ 08057
SUBJECT: DAN KLEINMAN v. JESSICA VIOTTO, BETH KOTRAN, TARA
MARIE HINTZ, BRYAN CHAPMAN, DANIEL SPANTON, GLEN
FARBANISH, JOHN MELICK, BRENDAN MCISAAC, NORTH
HUNTERDON-VORHEES BOARD OF EDUCATION, HUNTERDON
COUNTY, SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION DOCKET #C89-24
Dear Parties:

Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be discussed by the School Ethics
Commission (Commission) at its meeting on August 19, 2025. At this meeting, the Commission
will discuss whether probable cause exists for the allegations in the Complaint. Probable cause
shall be found when the facts and circumstances presented in the Complaint and Written
Statement would lead a reasonable person to believe that the School Ethics Act has been violated.

In addition, because Respondents alleged that the complaint is frivolous, the Commission
will also discuss this allegation, and any response thereto. If the Commission determines that the
Complaint is frivolous, such a finding may constitute sole grounds for dismissal, and such
dismissal shall constitute final agency action. N.J.A.C. 6A:28-9.4. In addition, pursuant to N.J.S.A.
18A:12-29(e), the Commission may impose a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).

The Commission’s meeting will take place at the New Jersey Department of Education,
100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, New Jersey 08625. Although you are permitted to attend public
session, please note that this is not an opportunity to discuss or to otherwise publicly litigate the
merits of the case. Further, the Commission’s review and discussion of this matter will take place
in Executive Session.

Page 2

Following its meeting on August 19, 2025, it is anticipated that the Commission will adopt
a decision at its next regularly scheduled monthly meeting thereafter. Once adopted by the
Commission, the parties shall be duly notified of the Commission’s decision (in writing) and will
be advised as to how the above-captioned matter will be processed.

Subject to the exceptions set forth at N.J.A.C. 6A:28-6.6(g), the Commission shall hold all
information confidential regarding any pending matter until the Commission finds that a school
official has violated the Act, or until such time that the above-captioned matter is settled,
withdrawn or dismissed.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at school.ethics@doe.nj.gov.

Sincerely,
/s/
Dana Jones
School Ethics Commission 


Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting:

Giulia Lima, Esq., Comengo Law Group for Respondents:

Good morning members of the Commission. I am Giulia Lima, Counsel for Respondents, the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education members named in the matter C89-24. This matter involves a May 7, 2024, vote by the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education on a library book challenge. This challenge was handled under established district policy. A review committee of educators, administrators, and a parent, considered the book and issued a divided recommendation. 

At the public meeting, more than twenty residents spoke with most supporting the book remaining. The board then voted not to remove it. That decision was made through the proper process and within the board's authority. 

The process was consistent not only with the district policy, but also with the principles later codified in the New Jersey Freedom to Read Act, which affirms students' right to access information and prohibits book bans based on disagreement with ideas. 

Dana Jones, School Ethics Commission Staff Member and Attorney:

Wait, Miss Lima, I just want to remind you, you can't talk about the merits of the case. 

Giulia Lima:

Okay.

Dana Jones:

So we talk and then the Commission decides whatever they decide. They're only going to consider what was in the complaint and the writ. 

Giulia Lima:

Yes.

Dana Jones:

So not, nothing of what you're talking about today. We do want to make sure that you don't talk about anything that we consider merits, defenses to the case. 

Giulia Lima:

Okay. 

School libraries have centers for voluntary inquiry, play a unique role in promoting intellectual freedom, providing equitable access to learning, resources, and promoting democracy by providing services to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age, ability, gender, or social economic status. 

In sum, the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books. 

Thank you for your time and your commitment to our schools, our teachers, and our students. 

...

Male Commissioner:

My daughter reads almost every day.

...

Jeannine Pizzigoni, School Ethics Commission Staff Member:

Can you state your name, please, and what case you are here for?

Dan Kleinman, Complainant:

Yes, my name is Dan Kleinman. I'm here for the case of the young lady over here that ...

[Discussion ensues within the SEC about Commissioner Richard Tomko having to go offline again like he did for Giulia Lima for conflict related to North Hunterdon-Voorhees BOE as he was applying for a contract with the BOE.  He has recused himself from the C89-24 process.  He will have the same access to the final decision after it is posted on the Commission’s website when the public will have access to that decision.]

I came here because I'm interested in the administration of justice. I'm fascinated by this School Ethics Commission. I wanted to just observe for myself what was going on in this case. I wasn't planning to say anything.

Jeannine Pizzigoni:

Okay.

Dan Kleinman:

And then the attorney spoke up. [Laughter ensues.] She's a very nice lady. 

But she did speak up on the, on the, uh, related to the case and and how you should basically be voting because she pointed out to how important libraries are and it's essential to our democracy that we have libraries. 

Then she was told, "We're sorry, you can't talk about things related to this case." And then she proceeded to proceed with more things related to this case. It's an attempt to spin the Ethics Commission. 

I'm not impressed with that. I just came to observe today. And what I observed was the continuing effort to claim that librarians are wonderful people and all books are wonderful, as the reason why this case should be, in your mind, just set aside. 

It's not the issue whether all libraries are wonderful, and I'm not gonna argue the merits of the case. I'm not impressed that she would, came up here and talked about this in violation of your rules, was warned about it, and then proceeded to continue to talk about this case in violation of the rules. 

It's not impressive. I hope when you make your decision that your decision is based on everything it's supposed to be based on, and the justice of the matter, and whether the law was violated, and that's it. 

And this is a very fascinating process. And I thank you guys for the efforts that you all put into doing this every month, it's a very important issue. 

Thank you.

Robert Bender, School Ethics Commission Chairperson:

I can tell you that, uh, as a commissioner, uh we've read, this material, it's not just a statement here or there, but we look into the depth of each case. And uh, uh, are we swayed? Uh, no, uh, we listen, uh, just as, as, you know, free speech, but at the same time, what we're dealing with is very serious. And, right now, we, we have read this, uh, we are certainly in detail in this, uh, and, uh, we'll give that great consideration. So, we don't take these things lightly. 

Dan Kleinman:

Okay.  This, her argument that the Freedom to Read Act passed in New Jersey, you know, that was written by Chicago's American Library Association. It's almost proof of what I've been saying. But thank you very much.


OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills:

Please provide all legal bills and accompanying documentation of what was done and when from any law firm including the Comegno Law Group, P.C., wherein the bills relate to preparation for and appearance at the August 19, 2025 New Jersey School Ethics Commission.  Consider this an open request until I am provided with documentation, just in case any bill has not yet been received.  Requesting this OPRA request to remain open will obviate the need for additional OPRA/FOIA requests, thereby saving time and money for all.  Once all such documents are provided to me, this request may be considered closed.  I am aware some law firms write legal bills in a manner that essentially circumvents OPRA laws.  Let's hope such games will not be played here or that will result in additional OPRA requests and associated costs that you will have brought upon yourselves.

My interest in the subject matter contained concerns saving the school district legal fees for work Comegno Law Group may have performed gratis for Chicago's American Library Association.  Essentially, Comegno Law Group, while ostensibly representing the school district, in reality performed work that may have violated New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct so as to benefit a special interest group, namely, American Library Association, the very same special interest group that is at the basis of the ethics complaint about the potential for the school board having broken ethics laws by favoring special interest groups in a manner against the law, among other things.  Comegno Law Group may have unethically promoted the interests of the special interest group while completely ignoring the interests of its client school board; any interests of the school board that were not also interests of the special interest group were not discussed at all before the NJ School Ethics Committee.  For example, the issue of board members having promised to vote a certain way on a certain issue in exchange for votes was not discussed.  Comegno Law Group was told repeatedly, including in person at the 8/19/25 meeting by the attorney for the Commission who had to interrupt the Comegno Law Group member, not to speak on topics relating to the case, but that didn't stop Comegno Law Group from charging ahead anyway with its open advocacy for special interest group American Library Association and for New Jersey's Freedom to Read Act that was written by American Library Association and passed as law in New Jersey.  The argument was essentially that since that law passed, the ethics matter under review was irrelevant, so no ethics were violated.  Ethics violated but not discuss by the attorney were essentially ignored.  Comegno Law Group may have violated rules of professional conduct to support American Library Association, but it never supported its school board client in the other ethics issues in the ethics complaint, and it certainly does not benefit the client to act unprofessionally to support the very outside interest group the school board may have also unethically supported, namely, American Library Association, the very basis of the ethics complaint.  So basically, Comegno Law Group volunteered work for American Library Association but charged the school board for that work.  This OPRA/FOIA request is to determine the existence and extent of the damage, if any, so it may be returned to the taxpayers.  I was at the hearing to see all this.  I have produced a transcript and the notice of hearing from the Commission to prove all this.  No member of the school board was in attendance, so only I saw this.  The meetings are not officially recorded.  I recorded the meeting on my iPhone and I produced an accurate transcript as a result.  So there's zero change Comegno Law Group can say it didn't happen or can keep people from hearing it for themselves.  All work billed to the school board related to the above should not have been billed to you.  The school board should refuse to pay any portion of any bill related to this matter.  Further, it should send a demand for payment of legal fees to American Library Association that directly benefitted from Comegno Law Group's unethical actions.  Finally, to avoid these litigious people supporting American Library Association's ability to harm school children with inappropriate material suing me, the above is all my opinion.


Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25:


Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25:


Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group:

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NOTE ADDED 15 SEPTEMBER 2025:

The OPRA request was effectively denied and closed on 12 September 2025.  From experience, 100% of the time a FOIA request is denied, the government is hiding something.  

In my case, they are hiding legal bills.  In the past I received legal bills.  Not this time.  They are definitely hiding something.  I suspect it's that the law firm is serving American Library Association, not the school district itself.

They say they don't have the legal bills because they are "sent directly to the District's insurance carrier."  If that is true, then they have not reviewed the bills and they are possibly violating even more ethics laws.  They might even be hiding that they know tax money is being used to support Chicago ALA goals.

I'll have to dig in more now, and they will eventually blame me for wasting the public's money.  It's like they blame book challengers for wasting public money when it's ALA diktat that creates the book challenges in the first place.

Here is the actual rejection letter, and click to enlarge:




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Friday, March 14, 2025

Dan Kleinman Is Intolerable, Not School Librarians Harming School Children; Guy Citron's Triple Decker Defamation

Dan Kleinman is intolerable, not school librarians harming school children, according to "guest commentator" Guy Citron at the Hunterdon Review, Whippany, NJ, pictured top right, photo credit Hunterdon Review:
By way of fair use, I will reprint the article then comment on it, to see if the claim of my being intolerable is projection.

As we shall see, Guy Citron himself is the intolerable one, making multiple defamatory claims about me, then he commits a significant deception to include what appears to be the defamatory statements of former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson.  I have also caught him in the act of colluding with Michael Gottesman to commit defamation per se.  

So school librarians harming children aren't the problem, I am, to Guy Citron.  He decides to personally defame me, piling on Martha Hickson defaming me and making a deceptive edit to do it, then further piling on Michael Gottesman defaming me.  

It's like a triple decker defamation by Citron et alia.  A trifecta of transgressors, shown below.  "Guest propagandist" would have been more accurate than "guest commentator."  Perhaps "guest gaslighter."



With so much heat, I might be over the target.  Ya think?



COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated

In 2025, it seems that [SO FAR SO GOOD, FALLS OFF A CLIFF HEREAFTER] far right-wing extremism [STARTS RIGHT OFF WITH POLITICAL NAME CALLING] may dominate business at the North Hunterdon – Voorhees Regional High School Board of Education [USES THAT POLITICAL NAME CALLING AGAINST AN ENTIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION].

To win their seats, instead of representing the community’s needs [FALSE], a majority of the members who have been serveing [sic] as of January 2025 spread hate [FALSE] about books, librarians, and school libraries. They were helped by radical [FALSE] politicians and outside influencers [FALSE, PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL] like Dan Kleinman, an intruder [FALSE] who is wholly unserious about improving public education [NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME. I ADDRESS HARM IN LIBRARIES AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO CAUSES TO LIBRARY PATRONS AND EMPLOYEES INCLUDING LIBRARIANS NATIONWIDE].

In what appears to be a grudge with the American Library Association [FALSE, I INVESTIGATE AND REPORT ON ALA, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GRUDGE, AS LONG AS THEY KEEP HARMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, I'LL KEEP REPORTING], Kleinman has spent decades [TRUE? TWENTY FIVE YEARS] crusading [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM, NOT CRUSADING] against your family’s right to read books [FALSE, READ WHATEVER YOU LIKE]. To fake credibility [FALSE, I HAVE 25 YEARS OF CREDIBILITY, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT CALLING ME AN EXPERT ON ALA DECEPTION], he created the World Library Association and Safe Libraries, neither entity having credentials or [sic] authority in librarianship [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST ON ALA AT SAFELIBRARIES, WORLD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION JUST STARTED SO IT WILL GROW, AND I HAVE BEEN A VOLUNTEER LIBRARIAN FOR TWO YEARS].

Furthermore, rather than tackling real challenges at school [FALSE, A SCHOOL LIBRARIAN POTENTIALLY VIOLATING NJ OBSCENITY LAW 2C:34-3, ETC., IS A REAL CHALLENGE AT SCHOOL, SO MUCH SO THE SCHOOL SPENT YEARS CONSIDERING THE ISSUE] – like smartphones – Kleinman preaches [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] ad nauseam [FALSE, IS A JOURNALIST SUPPOSED TO DO A SINGLE STORY THEN MOVE ON? HOW OFTEN DID WE HEAR RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA?  AD NAUSEAM, BUT THAT'S OKAY TO GUY SKEWERING ME FOR PERSISTENCE] that the sky is falling because of librarians and library books [FALSE, REAL CHILDREN ARE REALLY BEING HARMED BY SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, LIKE MAIA POET]. Worst of all, the librarians Kleinman targets [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST, THEY ARE SUBJECTS OF MY JOURNALISM, NOT TARGETS] endure harassment [FALSE, BUT I'M BEING SUED TO SILENCE ME ON THIS VERY POINT, AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, I SHOULD NOT COMMENT FURTHER, WHICH OF COURSE GUY CITRON AND OTHERS WILL USE AGAINST ME], false accusations [FALSE, ALMOST ALL OF MY REPORTING INCLUDES PRIMARY SOURCES UPON WHICH I REPORT, OFTEN I TURN THOSE SOURCES INTO TRANSCRIPTS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE CONTEXT], and invasions of privacy [FALSE, AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE TO WHAT HE IS REFERRING, EXCEPT PERHAPS SOMETHING IN THAT CASE I SHOULD NOT DISCUSS] to the point of harm [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST].

Now, Kleinman has been exposed as a national bully [FALSE, IN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY]. In November, one of his most famous victims [FALSE, BUT I SHOULD NOT SAY MORE], Amanda Jones, Louisiana school librarian and author of the best-selling [FALSE, BUT LIKELY TRUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE OF LIBRARIANS] book “That Librarian,” filed a suit [FALSE, SHE FILED TWO SUITS, ONE IN NEW JERSEY THEN AN IDENTICAL ONE IN LOUISIANA, BOTH LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF MY GIVE SEND GO PAGE HE PROVIDES BELOW BUT LATER STEALTH EDITS OUT] against him for defamation and false light.

Jones served Kleinman, via proxy [FALSE, VIA THE HUSBAND OF FORMER SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AT THAT SCHOOL, AND THE "SERVICE" WAS AN ENVELOPE INTENTIONALLY MADE HARD TO OPEN BY MARTHA HICKSON SO I WOULD SUPPOSEDLY SUFFER MORE WHILE OPENING IT—THAT's RETALIATION, NOT SERVICE], at the school board’s Tuesday, Nov. 26. meeting.

There, he sat with local allies [AS WE ALL DO, EVEN GUY CITRON SAT WITH HIS LOCAL ALLIES AND INDEED VIDEO TAPED ME WHEN MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDED ME A MANILA ENVELOPE, A VIDEO THAT WAS SHARED BY MARTHA HICKSON WITH MANY A GLOATING SCHOOL LIBRARIAN AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WHO COMMENTED ON MY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE], including failed board candidate [FALSE.  IT'S GOOD THAT PEOPLE RUN FOR PUBLIC BOARDS.  SOME LOSE.  THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM FAILED, IT JUST ADDS TO THE PROJECTION BY GUY AGAINST ME] Eric Licwinko, Steven Piontek, a Union Township resident known for shouting curses at meetings [FALSE, HE'S KNOWN FOR CARING TO SHOW UP AT BOARD MEETINGS OUT OF CONCERN FOR HIS CHILDREN, A SUPER POSITIVE TRAIT, AND SOMETIMES THINGS GET HEATED, BUT GUY CITRON CAN'T STOP PUTTING HIS POLITICAL CART BEFORE THE HORSE], and newly elected board member Richard Lordi [FALSE, BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT MY ALLIES, THEY ARE IMPARTIAL, AND TO THE EXTENT THEY AREN'T, ETHICS CHARGES COULD BE FILED AGAINST THEM, SOMETHING I HAVE DONE BECAUSE GUY CITRON'S ALLIES ON THE BOARD REALLY ARE LITERALLY PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, HENCE THEY ARE ALLIES, TO NEVER REMOVING INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY DESPITE THE OBSCENITY LAW, SO WHENEVER A BOARD DELIBERATES, THE ALLIES HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS IN VIOLATION OF LAW, BUT THAT CASE IS PENDING SO ONLY THE FUTURE KNOWS].

Jones had to find Kleinman at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees district [FALSE, IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE, BUT GUY CITRON'S FILMING OF MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDING ME A MANILA ENVELOPE SURE MADE FOR GREAT THEATRE FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND ALA LEADERS], his frequent haunt [FALSE, AND AGAIN GUY IS MOCKING SOMEONE ATTENDING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS IN WHAT BY NOW GIVEN THE REPETITION IS AN INTIMIDATION TACTIC TO KEEP PARENTS HE OPPOSES OR WOULD OPPOSE OUT OF SUCH MEETINGS], because while he has claimed to reside [FALSE] in Chatham and Bee Cave, Texas, both of those addresses point to UPS Store-style mailboxes rather than actual dwellings.

Here are some examples of Kleinman’s behavior:

• Kleinman has posted abusive [FALSE] statements about recently retired North Hunterdon High School librarian Martha Hickson more than 150 times and counting since 2021 via X/Twitter at https://x.com/SexHarassed, Facebook, and his own blog [PERHAPS, BUT HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON HAS PERSISTENTLY BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR THAT LONG, AND HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON MAY HAVE VIOLATED OBSCENITY LAW NJ 2C:34-3]. Some of those posts include https://tinyurl.com/3x57rev2, https://tinyurl.com/hpz92ce9, https://tinyurl.com/58c5s557.

• In January, he stole into [FALSE, AND POTENTIALLY DEFAMATORY IN AND OF ITSELF TO ALLEGE TRESPASS] the North Hunterdon High School library after hours [FALSE, THE LIBRARY WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT THAT TIME AND WAS IN USE BY THE PUBLIC, TRUE MARTHA HICKSON PUTS BLACK PAPER OVER THE WINDOWS SO NO ONE CAN LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY WHEN SHE IS THERE, BUT MARTHA HICKSON WAS NOT THERE AT THE TIME TO KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED], to take photos of Hickson’s workspace for later online harassment [FALSE, AGAIN, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND IT IS NEWSWORTHY THAT THERE WAS A GIANT SIGN OF MARTHA HICKSON WINNING A LUCRATIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ETC., IF I RECALL THE SIGN WAS PLACED HIGHER THAN I'M TALL—REMEMBER LUCRATIVE BECAUSE LATER GUY WILL MAKE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ABOUT MY ALLEGEDLY BEING PAID TO ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, AS IF I WOULD JEOPARDIZE MY 25 YEAR JOURNALISM CAREER TO GET PAID TO ATTEND A FEW BOARD MEETINGS]. He bragged [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM] about it and posted photos. The school also has security footage showing Kleinman walking around the library on the evening of Jan. 28, 2024 [I DID NOT KNOW AND I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE.  BUT IT IS CURIOUS THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD NOT MAKE VIDEO TAPES AVAILABLE TO A PARENT WHERE HE CLAIMED HE SAW MARTHA HICKSON TOOK A STUDENT OR STUDENTS INTO HER OFFICE AFTER HOURS.  ANYWAY, IT APPEARS I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO OPRA, INCLUDING HOW IN THE WORLD DID A PRIVATE CITIZEN LEARN THAT THE SCHOOL HAS TAPES OF ME IN THE LIBRARY]. The photo is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.



• At the June school board meeting, he sat alongside Piontek, who read a six-minute tantrum against Hickson almost certainly authored by Kleinman [FALSE, AND THE BOARD LET'S PEOPLE SPEAK FOR ONLY THREE MINUTES, AND OF COURSE GUY CITRON WOULD MISLABEL IT AS A TANTRUM, AGAIN COMPLAINING ABOUT A PARENT SPEAKING UP AT A BOARD MEETING, SOMETHING EVERYONE ELSE ENCOURAGES, GENERALLY SPEAKING].

• Kleinman has submitted to the board office multiple time-wasting [FALSE] OPRA (Open Public Records Act) requests to gain access to Hickson’s personal social media account, over which the district has no access or control [FALSE IN THAT PER A VIDEO OF MARTHA HICKSON SPEAKING FROM WITHIN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY SOLICITING WORK-RELATED MESSAGES VIA HER PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT, THOSE MESSAGES SHOULD BE UNDER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL, AND A RECENT NEW JERSEY CASE JUST FOUND OPRA COMPRISES WORK-RELATED MESSAGES EVEN IF THEY ARE IN PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS].

• He has filed ethics charges against eight North Hunterdon-Voorhees board members simply because they followed policy in deciding to retain a book challenged by Licwinko [FALSE, AND THE FULL COMPLAINT CAN BE SEEN ONLINE BUT APPARENTLY GUY IS ONLY HERE TO SMEAR: "Ethics Complaint: North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education"].

Kleinman’s antics [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, JOURNALISTS FILE OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS ALL THE TIME, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DO SO TOO AND SOMETIMES USE THEM TO DOX AND HARASS PARENTS SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED 24 HOUR POLICE PROTECTION, SO YET AGAIN IT'S ONE SIDED PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] come at a cost. In terms of personnel time and legal fees, the district is spending your tax dollars to respond to his delusions [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND THE PROBLEM IS THE POTENTIAL ILLEGALITY AND IMPROPRIETY, AND JOURNALISTS REPORT ON SUCH PROBLEMS].

Thankfully, Kleinman’s “work” [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, NO SCARE QUOTES NEEDED] has been repeatedly rejected by school officials [FALSE IN THAT SOMETIMES ITS ACCEPTED, POBODY'S NERFECT], he has failed to get books banned [FALSE, I OPPOSE BOOK BANNING AS DOES THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THOUGH EXPLICIT BOOKS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES IS A DIFFERENT STORY AND ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSED PER MULTIPLE POLLS], and despite his deranged [FALSE, HE'S MOCKING MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE NOW JUST TO SMEAR ME, AND HE'S AGAIN BORDERING ON DEFAMATION PER SE] certainty of her wrongdoing, he has been unable to get Hickson arrested [FALSE, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY EFFORT TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST MARTHA HICKSON NOR ANYONE ELSE. MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FIRST BEFORE CHARGES ARE BROUGHT].

How has Kleinman latched on to our district? His local social media friends include Licwinko, Piontek, sitting board member Nicole Gallo [FALSE], board member Lordi [FALSE], and Christopher Stadulis, husband of sitting member Cynthia Reyes-Stadulis [FALSE, I HAVEN'T "LATCHED ON" BECAUSE OF FRIENDS].

Gallo even parroted [FALSE, IT WAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED SHE WON THE ELECTION BY SAYING SHE WAS A MARXIST AND SHE WOULD WIELD POWER WITHIN ALA ACCORDINGLY] some of Kleinman’s most ludicrous talking points at the June meeting: the American Library Association (ALA) is Marxist, “the ALA’s president is a known, self-admitted, Marxist lesbian who promotes Queer Theory,” and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) “has a fist as a rose” to represent Marxism. “Marxists,” for those unfamiliar, are boogey-monsters [FALSE, AS WE CAN SEE WE RIGHT THERE WHERE THE NEW ALA PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED SHE WAS MARXIST AND WOULD NOW "WIELD POWER" WITHIN ALA. "SOLIDARITY," SHE SAID.  SHE WOULD LATER GO ON TO TELL FORMERLY JAILED MARXISTS AT THE SOCIALISM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO THAT SHE NEEDS THEIR HELP IN TURNING LIBRARIES INTO SITES FOR SOCIALISM TRAINING.  SEE https://karlyn.substack.com/p/exclusive-recording-american-library] who exist only in far right-wing propaganda [FALSE, AGAIN WITH THE NAME CALLING]. The video is at about 3:17:30 on the board meeting video viewable at https://www.youtube.com/live/GXtyvkApHKg.

And why, despite his repeated failures [FALSE], does Kleinman keep coming back to this school board [AGAIN HE'S DISCOURAGING ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS]? Who is funding Kleinman’s performances at these board meetings? His local contacts provide some clues.

One word: money. Just like the carpetbaggers of old, he accepts cold, hard cash in the form of a $1,000 per board meeting as an appearance fee [FALSE, IS THIS THE THIRD TIME NOW WITH THE DEFAMATION?].

In a Feb. 12 message exchange with a supporter of public education [FALSE, HE'S REFERRING TO MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, A SUPPORTER OF INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN ("PUSHING ALL KINDS OF NON SENSE IN NEW JERSEY SCHOOL, SUCH AS THE S@X ED CURRICULUM AND GENDER IDEOLOGY" SAYS @WAKEUPNJ ON X), NOT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.  IN GUY'S WORLD, EVERYONE ON HIS SIDE (LIKE @WAKEUPNJ SUMMARIZES)) IS AN ANGEL SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND EVERYONE ON THE OTHER SIDE SEEKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HARM IS DERANGED AND IS GRIFTING], Kleinman admitted [FALSE, JOKED WOULD BE THE ACCURATE TERM, BUT GUY DID NOT ASK ME NOR INVESTIGATE, HE JUST WENT AHEAD WITH A FALSE STORY BECAUSE IT ALIGNED WITH HIS OWN BELIEFS, AND HE MALIGNS ME FOR FILING OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH BEFORE I REPORT.  I JOKED BECAUSE THIS GUY GOTTESMAN HAS NEVER SPOKEN WITH ME BEFORE, AT LEAST NOT ON FACEBOOK, AND HIS FIRST STATEMENT TO ME WAS, "JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE TO SPEAK AT BOARD OF ED MEETINGS?"  WHAT AN ODD OPENING STATEMENT.  SO I PLAYED ALONG TO EXPOSE THE NETWORKS.  AND HERE'S GUY CITRON DEFAMING ME AS A GRIFTER WITH A PRIVATE MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK THAT HE GOT DIRECTLY FROM MICHAEL GOTTESMAN.  THERE'S YOUR NETWORKS.  SCHOOL LIBRARIANS COLLUDE WITH EACH OTHER BEHIND THE SCENES (I'VE REPORTED THIS IN AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE INSTANCES) AND HERE WE HAVE GUY CITRON PUBLISHING A PRIVATE MESSAGE JUST TO SMEAR ME AND WITHOUT FIRST FACT CHECKING.  HE COULD HAVE FILED AN OPRA WITH THE SCHOOL, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SEE IF I WAS PAID FOR THE TIMES I SPOKE.  HE DIDN'T.  HE WAS JUST INTERESTED IN THE SMEAR, NOT IN THE TRUTH.  THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER THE TARGET HAVE TO ENDURE], “I have to make money somehow… so I charge a token amount of $1,000 for three minutes of speaking, but I usually stick around for the whole meeting.” A photo of the screenshot of this message is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

Also, Kleinman is now openly soliciting for donations online to pay the legal bills he’s racking up at https://www.givesendgo.com/LegalFundForParents [SIGNIFICANT DECEPTION BY GUY CITRON.  THE FIRST VERSION OF HIS WRITING INCLUDED THE URL TO MY GIVE SEND GO THAT I PUT IN BOLD TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT HE ULTIMATELY DELETED.  THE UPDATED VERSION'S FIRST SIGNIFICANT EDIT WAS TO DELETE THE URL.  THAT'S INTENTIONAL DECEPTION.  AND IT REVEALS HE ONLY WANTS PEOPLE TO HEAR HIS FALSE VIEW AND NOT GO TO MY PUBLICATION TO READ THE TRUTH.  ALA LIBRARIANS AND SUPPORTERS DO THIS ROUTINELY TO SUFFOCATE ANY OPPOSITION AND NOT GIVE IT OXYGEN; JUST GO THERE AND LOOK AT THE COMMENTS TO SEE I'M BEING SMEARED RIGHT IN THE COMMENTS OF THE GIVE SEND GO, AND GUY CITRON IS HERE TO PUT THOSE SMEARS INTO PRINT AS THAT'S ANOTHER THING HE ADDS VIA STEALTH EDIT.  THAT'S WHAT GUY CITRON HAS DONE HERE.  COMPARE VERSION 1 (Mar 7, 2025) https://archive.ph/3Vi6Y with VERSION 2 (Mar 7, 2025 Updated Mar 11, 2025) https://archive.ph/jhtMG  IN THE SECOND VERSION, NOTICE HE ADDED THOSE COMMENTS SMEARING ME IN MY GIVE SEND GO: "So desperate is Kleinman to pick your pocket that he is falsely claiming that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial target of his abuse; she has reported the fraud to both the fundraising platform and law enforcement". MARTHA HICKSON IS POSTING ABOUT THIS COMMENTARY BY GUY CITRON CURRENTLY SO YOU KNOW SHE AND GUY CITRON ARE COLLUDING ON THE SMEAR.  I THINK WE CAN SEE WHO IS THE INTOLERABLE ONE HERE, AND IT'S NOT ME]. So desperate [FALSE] is Kleinman to pick your pocket [FALSE, AND THIS MAY BE THE FOURTH INSTANCE OF HIS DEFAMATION OF ME] that he is falsely claiming [FALSE] that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial [FALSE] target [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] of his abuse [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM]; she has reported the fraud [FALSE, THIS IS HIS FIFTH INSTANCE OF DEFAMATION, DEFAMATION PER SE IN THIS CASE] to both the fundraising platform [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE] and law enforcement [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE]. In 2024, Kleinman spoke at three of our meetings and likely authored the remarks for a fourth, totaling maybe $4,000 in “appearance fees.” [FALSE.  I DON'T CHARGE FEES.  I DO THIS AS PART OF MY 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON HOW ALA HARMS COMMUNITIES.  MARTHA HICKSON INVITED ALA INTO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, AND YOU DON'T HEAR GUY CITRON COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT, COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW FOLLOWING ALA'S ADVICE FROM CHICAGO IS REALLY THE CAUSE OF ALL THE EXPENDITURES.  AGAIN. IT'S PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] This provokes panic [FALSE], cycles his engagement [FALSE], and begs serious questions [FALSE]:

• Just what is Kleinman’s standing within our community? That answer is none [FALSE]. Kleinman doesn’t live here, has never lived here, and has no children in the district. And yet he was again at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25. No one wants a national bully [FALSE, IF THERE IS ANY NATIONAL BULLY INVOLVED, IT IS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND ITS LOCAL ACOLYTE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AND HER COCONSPIRATOR GUY CITRON] as an un-elected official. Yet here we are. We, the sensible [FALSE, IT IS NOT SENSIBLE TO INVITE IN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO INDOCTRINATE COMMUNITY CHILDREN AND VIOLATE LOCAL LAWS, COMMUNITY STANDARDS, AND COMMON SENSE], education-focused public must fight [FALSE, ALWAYS WITH THE WORD FIGHT WITH THESE PEOPLE] back. Attend school board meetings, question business not related to school, and speak out against tax-dollar wasting [FALSE], expert agitators [FALSE], like Kleinman.


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