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Arkansas Act 372 which takes effect in a few months criminalizes librarians and library staff for knowingly furnishing print and digital literature to minors ruled to be harmful or obscene. The measure was brought by Right-wing Republican lawmakers who seek to erase juvenile library materials about racial equity and inclusion, queer culture, black history and sex education.
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The intent of Arkansas Senate Bill 81, sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, is to force librarians to remove child and young adult reading materials classified by conservative Christian politicians and parents as obscene — or face arrest. Similar censorship bills and laws are being promulgated across the country to ban access by young people to literature illuminating civil rights, racial history, social justice and sex education.