{"id":116694,"date":"2023-08-02T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116694"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:42:02","slug":"judge-blocks-ark-law-banning-librarians-from-giving-minors-harmful-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116694","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Judge blocks Ark. law banning librarians from giving minors \u2018harmful\u2019 books&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/07\/30\/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;A federal judge in Arkansas temporarily blocked a state law that would have made it a crime for librarians and booksellers to give minors materials deemed \u201charmful\u201d to them \u2014 a move celebrated by free-speech advocates, who had decried the law as a violation of individual liberties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FACT372.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 372<\/a>&nbsp;would have taken effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acluarkansas.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_documents\/di_53_order_granting_pi_on_sections_1_and_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preliminary injunction<\/a>&nbsp;Saturday, siding with bookstores, libraries and patrons in the state thatargued in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/books\/2023\/06\/09\/arkansas-libraries-booksellers-lawsuit\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lawsuit filed last month<\/a>&nbsp;that parts of the law were unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Section 1 would have made it a criminal offense to knowingly provide a minor with any material deemed \u201charmful\u201d \u2014 a term defined by state law as containing nudity or sexual content, appealing to a \u201cprurient interest in sex,\u201d lacking \u201cserious literary, scientific, medical, artistic, or political value for minors\u201d or deemed \u201cinappropriate for minors\u201d under current community standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;A federal judge in Arkansas temporarily blocked a state law that would have made it a crime for librarians and booksellers to give minors materials deemed \u201charmful\u201d to them \u2014 a move celebrated by free-speech advocates, who had decried the law as a violation of individual liberties. Act 372&nbsp;would have taken effect Tuesday. U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116695,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116694\/revisions\/116695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}