School Librarian Sues Parents Over Explicit Books in School Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  ROXBURY SCHOOL LIBRARIAN SUES ROXBURY PARENTS OVER PARENTS EFFORTS TO KEEP SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOKS OUT OF SCHOOL LIBRARY

CORINNE M. MULLEN, ESQ.

Certified Civil Trial Attorney

April 20, 2023

     Roxbury High School librarian Roxana Caivano has filed a defamation action against a group of Roxbury parents who have opposed sexually explicit books on the shelf of the Roxbury School library.  The parents, represented by First Amendment lawyer Corinne Mullen, have responded with a letter demanding dismissal of the lawsuit based on it being a frivolous pleading.

     Why would a librarian sue parents over an issue that should be openly debated in the public domain and in the public forum of a BOE meeting?  Seeking to silence parents is at odds with our rights to act as citizens in an informed democracy.  There is a very public and prominent constitutional debate in our country today as to what books should be accessible to children on the shelves of a school library.  This issue is raging across America and parents believe it is their fundamental right to debate and to question the level of appropriate content for their minor children.  Parents should have the right to have a voice in whether their children should be exposed to sexualized content in the books chosen by public school employees.

     Some Roxbury School parents have been active participants in this public debate about this critical constitutional issue.  Ironically, they are being sued by Roxana Caivano, Roxbury School librarian who is seeking to silence them and impose a chilling affect on the First Amendment rights of the parents.

     The parents believe that all students have a right to see themselves reflected in the literature they read, while at the same time not be exposed to sexually inappropriate material, which is pervasively vulgar.  "We would not expose our minor children to this material at home and we challenge the right of school officials to override our decision and to promote and expose minors to this material in school," said one of the parents.  "We at least, as parents, should have a voice in the debate and be able to express our views in public forums and at public meetings considering such cases."

     This lawsuit inhibits open and robust debate on the issues as we as a nation must face on the appropriateness of content to which our children are exposed.  Our speech is clearly constitutionally protected speech about a public and critical issue.  "Ironically, this lawsuit seeks to silence public debate about free speech issues," commented the parents' attorney, Corinne Mullen, a First Amendment lawyer specializing in defamation.  Press inquiries may be made to The Mullen Law Firm, 201-420-1911 or corinne@mullenlawfirm.com.

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And she's right on target as American Library Association and state library associations like Texas Library Association work individually and together to stop parents from "express[ing] our views in public forums and at public meetings considering such cases."  Examples:

• ALA seeks to pass legislation to stop parents from legally complaining to school boards about educationally unsuitable material: "Librarians Attempt to Legislate 1960s Radical View That Age is Not Morally Relevant" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/04/librarians-attempt-to-legislate-1960s.html
• TXLA seeks to prevent parents from even learning there's a problem in the first place: "School Librarians Train to Violate FOIA Law to Keep Parents In the Dark About Sexualizing Children" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2022/12/school-librarians-train-to-violate-foia.html
• Even whistleblower librarians complain about what TXLA is doing: "Librarian Warns Parents and Librarians About S3xualization of Children; Texas SB13 Legislative Efforts by TXLA Criticized" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/04/librarian-warns-parents-and-librarians.html
• Hollywood is now engaged, and the TXLA #FReadom groomers are right there pushing it along: "Let America Read: Hollywood Gives Librarians Shiny New PR Sheen to S3xualize School Kids" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-america-read.html
• "NH Dems Defend Graphic Sex Content, Attack ‘Dangerous’ Parents in House Debate" https://nhjournal.com/nh-dems-defend-graphic-sex-content-attack-dangerous-parents-in-house-debate/
• "Florida School District 'Quarantining' Dozens of Books Due to Pornography, Tampa Group Says; 'We are insisting that our public-school media centers must stop providing children access to pornographic material,' the group’s executive director tells The Florida Standard" https://www.theflstandard.com/florida-school-district-quarantining-dozens-of-books-due-to-pornography-tampa-group-says/

The silencing of parents is so bad, as educationally unsuitable material sweeps America because of school librarians, that parents feel the need to speak up for their rights before state legislators, like this example from New Jersey:

JMJ

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PARENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOM RALLY

WE URGE ALL LIBERTY LOVING CITIZENS TO SHOW UP AND STAND UP TO THE TYRANNICAL MURPHY ADMINISTRATION AND THOSE LEGISLATORS WHO TRAMPLE ON OUR RIGHTS AND OUR FREEDOM

WHEN: MAY 15TH 10:30 AM TO 1:00 PM

WHERE: STATE HOUSE ANNEX, 125 WEST STATE STREET, TRENTON

WHY:  Support Parental Rights

Oppose the Sexualization and Indoctrination of Children in Public Schools

 Defend Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech

THE ISSUES:

• NJ’s obscene and pornographic Sex Ed Standards and School Library books
• Transgender indoctrination without parental knowledge or consent
• Critical Race Theory and Marxist indoctrination teaching hatred and intolerance in public schools
• Promotion of Invasive Procedures, including abortion and experimental transgender protocols that can cause Sterilization, Systemic harm without parental knowledge or consent
• Compulsory Vaccination despite known Severe Adverse Reactions and Deaths

Parents have the right and responsibility to direct the education of their children and states have the primary responsibility for supporting that parental role. Also, teachers have the right to refuse to participate in mandates that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. The Courts have supported religious freedom and opposed school boards in the numerous cases that have been litigated on this issue.

Children must be protected from sexualization, transgender experimentation and mutilation, and dangerous ideologies, such as Critical Race Theory, that promote hatred and intolerance in public schools, protected from inappropriate, sexually explicit pornographic books for children in our libraries. Parents who disagree with the “protocol” to affirm and transition gender confused children, often without parental knowledge or consent, can be considered “abusive” and risk losing custody of their children.

Vulnerable children depend upon caring and courageous adults to stand up to predators in the schools, bureaucracy, and medical field that expose them to dangerous experimentation and mutilation.

Let us stand to defend our families, our freedom, and our faith. Not only children, but the future of our state and nation depends upon it. For more information contact Jeryl Maglio at 862-596-2726 or via email: dtf@doloresturcofoundation.org.

Lastly, I myself have been named in the defamation lawsuit / vexatious litigation by Roxana Caivano, though I am not a party.  I have written about Roxana Caivano here: "Roxbury High School Librarian Roxana Caivano and Gender Queer" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/03/roxbury-high-school-librarian-roxana.html

Parents need to stand up against this broadside attack against them by people targeting children for harm.  Run for school boards then get rid of all ALA policy guidance.  Read about "Details on Stopping Indoctrination in Schools and Libraries: Guide for Parents and Legislators on Obscenity, Drag Queen Story Hour, 1619 Project, Etc." https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/details-on-stopping-indoctrination.html, show up to public meetings to support parents rights like the one shown above, and please, please contribute to the very parents being sued by the Gender Queer pushing school librarian in New Jersey who didn't like parents speaking up at a school board meeting.  Do it now here: https://www.givesendgo.com/Roxburyparentslegaldefensefund

Donation fund for legal fees of #parents sued by a Roxbury NJ school #librarian: https://t.co/Q7hBJO5UKG#parenting #moms #dads: please give as much as you can. @ALALibrary funds these groomer #librarians with 5 digit donations. So let’s all help @ChristinaMB122, etc., a little.

— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® 🟧 (@SexHarassed) April 13, 2023

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Utah Library Filters Would Protect Children

Utah Library Filters Would Protect Children

Statement by Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of NCOSE

Washington, DC – Following Utah’s recent resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis, Utah legislators are seeking to protect children from exposure to pornography on the Internet at public libraries. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) commends these efforts, and dispels the myth that computer filters infringe on education.

“Childhood exposure to pornography can have devastating effects, and public libraries must do their part to prevent it,” said Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “Pornography decreases brain matter in areas related to decision making and motivation, shapes the sexual template of the viewer to accept violence against women, and is dangerous to children who are highly susceptible to developing compulsive behaviors and addictions. Further, when patrons are viewing pornography in a library it turns a once safe community setting into a XXX space. This fosters child sexual abuse, sexual assault, exhibitionism, stalking, and lewd behavior, all of which have occurred in libraries in America after patrons watched pornography at libraries. It is therefore vital that libraries install filtering systems to safeguard children.”

“The main opponents to library filters have warped agendas,” Hawkins continued. “The Free Speech Coalition—a pornography industry lobbying association—makes the outdated claim that Internet filters are unable to distinguish between pornographic websites and educational sites about pregnancy and sex education. This is rubbish. Technology has come a long way since the early 1990s. Today’s filtering systems are highly accurate and allow for authentic educational sites to be accessed by all.”

“Further, the Utah Library Association has claimed that the filters suggested by Utah legislators would be redundant since filters are required for forms of federal and state library funding. However, among some library filtering systems currently in use, filtering mechanisms are easily bypassed. Additionally, the American Library Association (ALA) has systematically misinformed libraries that they would be ‘violating First Amendment rights’ to install said filtering, and so, many libraries refrain from using them. The ALA disseminates this misinformation despite the fact that the Supreme Court has upheld that Internet filters at public libraries do not violate First Amendment rights. For this reason the ALA has been placed on NCOSE’s annual Dirty Dozen List for the past four years.”

“Why are these groups so dead set on exposing children to pornography? The porn industry is a big money business seeking consumers, but that doesn’t give them the right to harm the lives of children in their pursuit of profit. As for the ALA, their reckless policy position is an enigma; they steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that the First Amendment is not a license to provide unfettered access to illegal, obscene materials in public settings. Parents, educators, and librarians can learn more about protecting their children and communities for the harms of pornography by visiting our Safe Schools Safe Libraries webpage,” Hawkins concluded.

To learn more about NCOSE’s project calling for filtering at libraries and schools, visit http://endsexualexploitation.org/sssl/



If you would like to schedule an interview, please contact Haley Halverson at (202) 393-7245 or haley@ncose.com.

About National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)
Founded in 1962, National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is the leading national organization dedicated to opposing pornography by highlighting the links to sex trafficking, violence against women, child abuse, and addiction. NCOSE embraces a mission to defend human dignity and to advocate for the universal right of sexual justice, which is freedom from sexual exploitation, objectification, and violence.

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www.EndSexualExploitation.org

National Center on Sexual Exploitation

1100 G St., NW Washington, DC 20005.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 19, 2016

Contact: Haley Halverson
202-393-7245
haley@ncose.com

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