More: Iowa's book ban battle: How public schools removed thousands of books over a new law The law is the subject of two lawsuits, one led by publishers and authors and a second by LGBT advocates ...

The law was first approved by Iowa's Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2023, but key parts, including the book ban, were temporarily blocked by a federal judge before they ...

"Fahrenheit 451," a book about a dystopian future with themes of censorship, "Draw Me a Star," a children's picture book about an artist who creates the world through drawings, and a novel about ...

Locher wrote that Iowa’s law — Senate File 496 enacted in 2023 — “makes no attempt to evaluate a book’s literary, political, artistic, or scientific value before requiring the book’s removal from a ...

A federal judge on Tuesday put a hold on an Iowa law that says schools cannot carry books that depict sex acts. District Judge Stephen Locher placed a temporary block on the ban, saying there were ...

A legal organization focused on freedom of expression filed a new legal brief Monday asking the Eighth Circuit Court of ...

Book filtering legislation The book restrictions in Tennessee follow the state's adoption of the Age-Appropriate Materials Act. That law only applies to books in libraries but not in classrooms.

The new decision from U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher again temporarily blocked the part of the law that prohibits school libraries and classrooms from carrying books that depict sex acts. The ...