Books that have been in our libraries for generations are being targeted, for seemingly no reason or at least no legal reason. The Georgetown Independent School District picked books that they have deemed inappropriate and are trying to take them from students. Mrs. Cooper spoke up for her students and in return may loose her job. We need to keep books, education, and our amazing librarian safe.

This is not a political issue- Democrats and Republicans alike want libraries!  Reading, and teaching our next generation to appreciate books is how we have advanced through each of the information explosions of the centuries.  We cannot let this tiny red schoolhouse library fall by the wayside. If you agree, please sign and share this petition today!

As residents of Pinellas County Florida, we trust the staff at the Palm Harbor Library to provide access to books, materials, displays and programming. We want our children to have access to displays and materials that will prepare them to learn about the world around them. We believe that parents should have the final decision as to what their children read and access. Pinellas County Commissioners should not Censor and Control what Palm Harbor residents access in their library. Politicians should not push their own agendas and instead should listen to the voice of the people they serve. Please sign and share this petition if you agree.

YOUR RIGHTS to freedom of expression, choice, and access to information, free of censorship, are under attack. Help us fight censorship and protect libraries from attack by keeping citizens of Lapeer informed of everything happening and actions they can take. Demand our local officials protect our freedoms. Show up and demonstrate how strongly our community supports Constitutional freedoms. We are dedicated to preserving Americans’ freedom to choose what we read. Join our anti-censorship, pro-library work and TAKE ACTION. To the Lapeer District Library Board and the Lapeer County Board of Commissioners:  We, the undersigned, want our Lapeer District Library (LDL) to continue to provide patrons access to the information they need, free of censorship. To this end, we demand that 1) Trustees be appointed to the LDL Board who will uphold their oath to the Constitution and 2) that LDL Trustees make decisions regarding library policies and collections that are in keeping with library law and the 1st and 14th Amendments. 

The St. Francis Area Schools Board of Education must end its mandate that the library use BookLooks.org, an anonymous website designed to target books with diverse viewpoints. Parents, students, and teachers deserve to have materials on the shelves that have been transparently vetted and reviewed by credible resources and publications, not shady websites with thinly-veiled political goals. Library collection policies should require that professional librarians use credible review sources to build strong collections materials that support the learning and growth of all students. BookLooks, by contrast, requires no credentials, is not transparent in naming reviewers, and has no editorial standards. Its anonymous members regularly rate important and valuable literary works as controversial or objectionable based on their discriminatory viewpoint. Sign the petition and tell the St. Francis Area Schools Board of Education to stop mandating the use of BookLooks in their libraries!

The Warren County Library Commission must end its promotion of BookLooks.org, an anonymous website designed to target books with diverse viewpoints, and any sites like it. Parents deserve credible resources from trained professionals, not unvetted sources. Endorsing BookLooks and similar websites compromises our library's integrity and parents' right to reliable information about books for their children. Our libraries already provide credible reviews through databases like NoveList and resources like Kirkus Reviews. Sites like BookLooks require no professional credentials, have no named reviewers, and follow no editorial standard. Its anonymous members routinely flag important literary works, especially those covering topics of sexuality, race, religion, or history, as controversial or objectionable. At multiple public meetings, dozens of community members objected to BookLooks and similar sites, but the Library Commission ignored concerned taxpayers and pushed forward despite overwhelming opposition. Sign this petition if you believe Warren County Public Libraries should remove BookLooks.org from its list of endorsed resources for patrons and recommend only vetted, transparent book review websites.

On Thursday, February 27th, despite full support of the greater community and everyone of the 600+ in the room, the Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) School Board was tone deaf to the pleas of our students, ignored them, talked over them, and voted to eliminate ALL Teacher Librarians. Their baseless justifications are for budgetary reasons, but see the facts for yourself at Grossmont Education Association. Impacted sites include:  Grossmont, El Cajon Valley, Mount Miguel, El Capitan, Granite Hills, Monte Vista, Santana, Valhalla, and West Hills. Teacher Librarians provide essential services to students and staff that are irreplaceable. Cutting these positions will hurt our students, the quality of their learning experiences, and the thriving communities that our properly staffed school libraries support. We urge our school board members to genuinely listen to their constituents and reverse their cuts to Teacher Librarian positions. Sign and share this petition now to protect our librarians and ensure students continue to receive the resources and support they need!

We support reading freedom in New Mexico. We oppose book bans. Everyone deserves to share their culture through books. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to read. Book bans limit reading choice by removing or hiding books. A few people shouldn't decide what everyone else can read. Book bans are often prejudiced too. Schools and libraries are for learning. Our world is both great and difficult. We can all learn so much about it through the safety of the pages of a book.

We must protect the library that we know and love. Samuels is the place we went to growing up and now take our kids. We want it to be there for our grandkids. It has a legacy in this community. This library and the staff have stood up for our first amendment rights and it is our time to stand up for them.  We have to tell these Supervisors that this is not want Warren County voters want. 

The Elizabeth School Board is implementing policies that will block access to age appropriate books in each of Elizabeth's school libraries and in classroom libraries.  They want to ban books -- even award-winning, classic American literature -- that have been in the ESD libraries for years and used as curriculum for generations.  Please sign and share this petition to stop the Elizabeth School Board from this government overreach and infringing on the rights of ESD parents and students.

The Greenville County Library Board is illegally restricting access to books written for young adults and children. They have ordered the materials moved to a shelving area called the Parenting and Early Childhood collection which is off limits to anyone under 18. They then ordered that books that deal with topics that they are uncomfortable with must be moved to this restricted section. What books has the Board determined must be restricted? Books featuring children with disabilities. Books that help younger people deal with loss. Books that deal with the topic of gender. Some of the books have been deemed inappropriate for children because a crayon has the wrong wrapper or because a fictitious creature is neither a duck nor a bunny. The message is loud and clear that these children—the ones with disabilities, who don’t conform to traditional roles— are bad and wrong. The restricted area stigmatizes many families and forces them to pick their books up from a different section because they don’t conform to the Board’s idea of what a family should look like. Please sign and share this petition If you agree that political appointees should not be illegally forcing their discriminatory viewpoints on the reading choices of Greenville parents and families.

We believe that public libraries are for everyone, and censorship is Anti-American. We also believe in and trust our professional librarians and city staff. Library operations and collection development should be left in their hands. This unfairly appointed advisory library board is sowing seeds of mistrust and hate. We want to put love over hate, respect over mistrust.