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By Anne Maxwell, News4Jax
05-17-24
NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – A federal lawsuit is accusing Nassau County school officials of violating the First Amendment and Florida’s Sunshine Laws by removing dozens of books from public school libraries behind closed doors last year, including the children’s book “And Tango Makes Three.”
The plaintiffs include students and their parents in the school district, as well as the authors of “And Tango Makes Three.”
That book tells the true story of a pair of bonded male penguins at a New York City zoo who, with the help of a zookeeper, incubated an egg and adopted the chick when it hatched.
The lawsuit says when the book was challenged in Nassau County public school libraries last year, the district found it didn’t contain anything obscene or sexual that violated the law, but decided to remove it anyway.
Now, the federal lawsuit argues the book’s removal was discriminatory
Read the full article here: Nassau County schools facing federal lawsuit over removal of dozens of books (news4jax.com)
