An online petition against book censorship in Washoe County has breezed by 2,000 signatures and is now aiming for 3,000.
“Like most Americans, we strongly oppose book banning and organized attempts to purge books from library shelves. Recently, a small group has been trying to remove books from our public and school libraries,” the petition begins.
It can be found here: https://www.fightforthefirst.org/.../oppose-censorship-in...
A challenged in Washoe County list available on the library system website has 21 titles on it currently, including The Bluest Eye, the first novel by acclaimed author Toni Morrison, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and “This Book is Gay” by trans writer Juno Dawson.
The full list can be found here: https://catalog.washoecountylibrary.us/...
At the County school level, if parents give notification that a student should not read a specific book, or a certain category of books, their account is flagged, preventing them from checking the book out, based on the parental request.