New Wisconsin bill targets school librarians for books that some parents consider obscene

New Wisconsin bill targets school librarians for books that some parents consider obscene.

It's a bill that's been replicated across the United States , according to Every Library , tracking legislation concerning libraries.

Six states, including Texas , Tennessee and North Dakota , have enacted legislation that removes protections for school librarian who purchase library books deemed "obscene".

A website called BookLooks.org scans texts for sexually explicit words and feeds back the number of times those words appear in the book.

Educators argue that everything the bill attempts to accomplish already exists.

The U.S. Supreme Court has already weighed in on what is considered obscene.

PEN America has tracked 5,894 instances of school book bans in the U.S. over the last two years .

2,598 authors, illustrators and translators have been impacted by book bans over the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years .

One in five LGBTQ+ students said they had access to inclusive sex education and fewer than one in seven have ever been taught about LGBTQ+ history.