The next Douglas County School District (DCSD) Board of Education Election will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023! Check your voter registration and closest ballot drop box: https://www.douglas.co.us/elections/. The 2022-23 school year marked an unprecedented escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States. PEN America recorded 3,362 … Continue reading DCSD School Board Candidate Questionnaire: Valerie Thompson

The next Douglas County School District (DCSD) Board of Education Election will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023! Check your voter registration and closest ballot drop box: https://www.douglas.co.us/elections/. The 2022-23 school year marked an unprecedented escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States. PEN America recorded 3,362 … Continue reading DCSD School Board Candidate Questionnaire: Brad Geiger

The next Douglas County School District (DCSD) Board of Education Election will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023! Check your voter registration and closest ballot drop box: https://www.douglas.co.us/elections/. The 2022-23 school year marked an unprecedented escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States. PEN America recorded 3,362 … Continue reading DCSD School Board Candidate Questionnaire: Susan Meek

The book crisis actors say the library provides pornography, obscene and sexually explicit materials to children. Is this true? To anyone who has ever visited the library, the obvious answer is no. Library staff hold advanced degrees and are professionally trained to select age-appropriate materials for purchase and display. You will not find copies of … Continue reading Fact Check: A Closer Look at the Challenged Books

If you watched the recent Douglas County Commissioner Town Hall regarding Family Friendly Facilities, you probably recognized many of the people attempting to ban PrideFest in Castle Rock as the same people behind the current book ban campaign at Douglas County Libraries — all in the name of "protecting children's innocence" and insisting that it's … Continue reading Fact Check: Inside the Appeals

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it's probably a duck. Or in this case, it's a book ban. No one is banning books. No one is calling for books to be banned. It is about age appropriateness, and leaving politics out of kids minds. For those saying, we’re trying … Continue reading Fact Check: A Book Ban by any Other Name is Still a Book Ban

06/26/23: This post has been updated to include the Executive Library Director's decision to keep the materials shelved as is. The challenges can now be appealed to the Library Board of Trustees for a final decision. Send Bob a thank you letter/email and be sure to copy the trustees so they see your support! On … Continue reading Fact Check: Freedom Fathers Claim False Victory

According to the Douglas County Libraries Collection Policy, the library “will make every effort to correlate our content choices with community demand and interests. The District seeks to build a market driven inventory rather than any pre-conceived philosophy or bias.” You can help support diverse books and authors just by using your library card and … Continue reading Check Out to Help Out: Use Your Library Card to Defend FReadom!