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PEN America: Tennessee's Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act Would Censor Books, Jail Librarians
February 25, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- PEN America issued the following news release:

The Tennessee state legislature should reject a new legislative proposal, the Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, as an unwarranted, un-American, and unconstitutional intrusion into children's right to read, PEN America said.

Tennessee state legislators have recently proposed The Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, which would create local discretionary boards around the state which woul . . .

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