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NCAC and FAP Send Letter To Marin Civic Center re: Nudes Censorship

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

As blogged earlier this week, admins at the Marin Civic Center censored a painting of a nude female from an annual art show because an employee claimed it constituted sexual harassment. This morning, NCAC and the First Amendment Project sent … Continue reading →

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Nudes In The News! Marin County Civic Center Censors Artist

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

The Marin County Civic Center has chosen to eliminate a nude painting by San Rafael artist Sylvia Cossich Goodman from a public exhibition. The full-frontal nude was accepted through what we can assume was a standard submission process, and was … Continue reading →

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Violent video games in the Supreme Court

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

There were quite a few surprising moments at the Supreme Court argument Tuesday about California’s attempt to ban violent video games. There were references to “gratuitous violence” as material that “appeals to a base instinct especially [in] minors.” It made … Continue reading →

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Book censorship round-up for this week

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Suzanne Collins’s young adult novel The Hunger Games is challenged in New Hampshire by a parent whose 11-year old said the book gave her nightmares. The parent has yet to file a formal complaint or read the book. Regardless, the … Continue reading →

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Temecula City Managers Remove Nude Artwork from Visual Expression 2010 Show

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

In January, artwork by Jeff Hebron, which had been selected for inclusion in a Temecula, CA juried art exhibit (Visual Expressions 2010), was removed upon the request of the City Management. The problem: the painting depicted a nude figure. The … Continue reading →

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Not even dictionaries are safe for children?

Posted on January 29, 2010 by

School officials at Menifee Union School District temporarily removed copies of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition for containing graphic terms like “oral sex” after a parent complained. (But as it turns out, the dictionary did not even contain this term…) … Continue reading →

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School’s Punishment Runs Afoul of First Amendment Freedoms Online: J.C. v. Beverly Hills Unified School District

Posted on January 8, 2010 by

Schools that dish out draconian punishments to students who are mean to each other online (aka cyberbullying) risk running afoul of the First Amendment. Beverly Vista School, a K-8 school in the Beverly Hills Unified School District, learned this lesson … Continue reading →

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There’s no such thing as a “safe library”

Posted on July 17, 2009 by

The phrase “safe libraries” should always raise a red flag. Proponents for “safer libraries” argue that some information is inherently dangerous, but the First Amendment is designed to ward off the suppression of information. In the case of  internet filters … Continue reading →

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New laws let schools districts punish for cyberbullying

Posted on January 5, 2009 by

The Washington Post reported January 1st that “at least 13″ states have passed new laws addressing cyberbullying. According to the article: Most of the laws are aimed at school districts, requiring them to develop policies on cyber-bullying — for example, … Continue reading →

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