Nation’s largest publisher files lawsuit challenging Florida county’s book bans – UPI.com

Free-speech group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court, challenging book bans in a Florida Panhandle county.

The lawsuit alleges that administrators and school board members in Florida’s Escambia County School District have violated the First and 14th amendments. The groups say the books that are being banned are “disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ+ authors.”

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