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And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. She and two other librarians who were similarly fired have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Reached through the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the settlement requires her former employer to give librarians more say in decisions involving library programs. After her firing in 2022, Baker filed an EEOC claim against her employer, the Llano County Library System in Kingsland, Texas. Like Baker, Lesley had trouble finding work after being fired from the library system she directed in Gillette, Wyoming.
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A Texas county will keep its public libraries open amid a debate over which books belong on the shelves. Leaders in Llano County met Thursday to weigh whether to halt operations at public libraries until they receive further guidance from federal courts. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered the county’s three libraries to return about a dozen books to their shelves two weeks ago in response to a lawsuit brought by seven county residents and library patrons last year.
Leaders in a Texas county are considering closing its public libraries following a federal judge’s order to place recently removed books back on the shelves. The Commissioners Court of Llano County is expected to meet Thursday afternoon to weigh whether to halt operations at its three libraries until it receives further guidance from federal courts, according to a public notice. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered the county’s libraries to return about a dozen books to their shelves two weeks ago in response to a lawsuit brought by seven county residents and library patrons last year.
A small Texas county decided to keep its public libraries open during a heated public meeting in which county commissioners weighed whether to shut down the library system after a judge ordered the county to restore banned books to its shelves. The decision was seen as a victory for a group of residents who had sued the county and library officials, arguing that the book removals were unconstitutional and violated citizens’ First Amendment rights. The judge, Robert Pitman, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, ordered Llano County to return the books to their place while a lawsuit over the banned books, brought on by a group of county residents, proceeds. After the judge’s order was issued, county commissioners called a special meeting to decide whether to “continue or cease operations” at the library. The ongoing fight has divided the community and made Llano, a rural county in central Texas about 80 miles northwest of Austin, a new testing ground for citizens invoking First Amendment protections in the face of rising book bans.
LLANO, Texas, April 13 (Reuters) - A rural Texas county's public libraries will remain open while a court battle continues over whether local officials can remove books deemed inappropriate, commissioners decided on Thursday. "Does Llano, Texas, want to be known as the town that closed the public library?" No state bans more books than Texas, according to PEN America. "Public libraries are not meant to serve particular ideological factions," said Kasey Meehan, who directs the "Freedom to Read" project of PEN America. Reporting by Evan Garcia in Llano, Texas, and Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; editing by Donna Bryson and Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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