Ban Censorship, Not Books or Websites
On July 25, 2011, the Republic School District Board in southwest Missouri voted unanimously to ban Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer from its curriculum and library. Banning books from libraries is nothing n...
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Ban Censorship, Not Books or Websites
On July 25, 2011, the Republic School District Board in southwest Missouri voted unanimously to ban Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer from its curriculum and library. Banning books from libraries is nothing n...
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Banned Books Week Kicks Off Tomorrow!
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a school district in Missouri agreed to lift its ban on Slaughterhouse-Five and Twenty Boy Summer, two books the district had completely banned from its libraries. Thanks to a coalition of censorship opponen...
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Judge Temporarily Halts College’s Unlawful Drug Testing Program
Taking swift action, a federal district court judge last night granted an ACLU request and temporarily halted an unconstitutional policy at a public college in Missouri requiring all incoming students to submit to mandatory drug tests. Judge Nanet...
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Got Urine? ACLU Sues College Over Mandatory Drug Testing
Today the ACLU filed suit in federal court to stop Linn State Technical College, a public college in Missouri, from drug testing all of their incoming students with no suspicion of wrongdoing. Six brave students have stood up to administrators to ...
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Got Urine? ACLU Sues College Over Mandatory Drug Testing
Today the ACLU filed suit in federal court to stop Linn State Technical College, a public college in Missouri, from drug testing all of their incoming students with no suspicion of wrongdoing. Six brave students have stood up to administrators to ...
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Pass a Drug Test Before You Can Pass a Class
This week, a college in Missouri broke the law and violated the Fourth Amendment rights of its students. Linn State Technical College became the first public institution of higher learning to implement mandatory drug testing of all new students,...
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From Filthy Boys Prison to New Beginnings: Hill Staffers Walk a Mile in Youthful Offenders’ Shoes
Recently, the juvenile justice communityanized a site visit to the Oak Hill Youth Center and the New Beginnings Youth Development Center in Laurel, Maryland, for key congressional staffers and staff in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
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Looking Back With Love; Looking Forward to Equality and Pride
Kelly Glossip lost his partner of 15 years, Missouri state trooper Dennis Engelhard, on Christmas morning in 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners fr...
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