A lawsuit, filed by Penguin Random House, five authors, two parents of children affected by the bans, and the non-profit group PEN America, alleges that the Escambia County school board #banned and restricted #books "based on their disagreement with the ideas expressed in those books."
In so doing, the school board has "prescribed an orthodoxy of opinion that #violates the #First and #Fourteenth #Amendments."
“In Escambia County, state censors are spiriting books off shelves in a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices. In a nation built on free speech, this cannot stand,” Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, said. “The law demands that the Escambia County School District put removed or restricted books back on library shelves where they belong.”
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