{"id":1986489,"date":"2023-07-30T22:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T02:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-librarians-giving-children-harmful-books\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T02:44:19","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-librarians-giving-children-harmful-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-librarians-giving-children-harmful-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge halts Arkansas ban on librarians providing &#8216;harmful&#8217; books to children."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-librarians-giving-children-harmful-books%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Federal Judge \u200dBlocks Arkansas Law Criminalizing Librarians for Providing &#8220;Harmful&#8221; Books to Children<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">federal judge<\/a> has\u200d issued a preliminary injunction\u2063 against an Arkansas law that would have punished librarians \u2064with criminal charges if they provided children\u2062 with &#8220;harmful&#8221; books.\u2063 The law, which was set to take effect on Tuesday, would have made it a Class A misdemeanor for libraries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-librarians-giving-children-harmful-books\/\" title=\"Federal judge halts Arkansas ban on librarians providing 'harmful' books to children.\">knowingly distribute materials deemed harmful<\/a> \u2063to \u2062minors.<\/p>\n<p>The judge&#8217;s decision came after the Central Arkansas Library System, along with the American Booksellers Association, the Association\u2063 of American Publishers, \u2063and several\u200c local libraries, filed a lawsuit challenging the law. They argued that \u200cit would place libraries and\u2063 booksellers in an impossible position of either preventing minors\u2064 from accessing adult material or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-of-the-zombie-era\/\" title=\"Attack of the Zombie ERA\">facing criminal charges<\/a> and fines.<\/p>\n<p>The law defined\u2063 &#8220;harmful \u2063to minors&#8221; as \u200bcontent \u200dcontaining nudity or sexual material, lacking serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic, or political value for minors, and \u2064being considered offensive by current community standards.\u2062 However, the judge found the \u200cdefinition to be vague and raised concerns about \u200bpotential censorship based on content or viewpoint, which would\u200d violate \u2062the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the measure in March, but the judge&#8217;s injunction has halted its enforcement. \u200bArkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin \u200chas\u200c stated that his office will review the judge&#8217;s opinion and continue \u2062to defend the law.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting First\u2064 Amendment\u200d Rights<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200d ACLU of \u2063Arkansas, which represented some of the plaintiffs, praised the judge&#8217;s decision, emphasizing that the law would have jeopardized the constitutional rights \u2063of all Arkansas residents. ACLU\u2064 of Arkansas Executive \u2063Director\u200d Holly Dickson expressed regret that\u200d such a\u200d question even had\u2063 to be raised, stating, &#8220;Do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the issue of\u2063 children&#8217;s\u2064 material\u2063 in libraries\u2062 and school \u200dcurricula has sparked controversy \u200damong parents who believe that inappropriate content\u2062 is easily accessible\u200d to \u200btheir children. This concern has led to protests \u2063at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">school board meetings<\/a> and public libraries, where \u200bparents have voiced\u2064 their objections to specific books they deem inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u2063 the judge&#8217;s \u2064ruling serves\u200b as a\u2064 reminder that the First Amendment \u2064protects the freedom to access \u200ba wide \u2063range \u200cof\u2062 reading materials, while also recognizing the importance of \u200cage-appropriate content for minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge halted an Arkansas law that would have criminalized librarians for giving &#8220;harmful&#8221; books to kids. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks granted a preliminary injunction on Saturday. The law aimed to make it a Class A misdemeanor for libraries to knowingly supply children with any such material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1986490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}