South Carolina public school librarians and students filed a lawsuit on October 7, challenging the state's book-banning regulation and a classroom censorship memo.

The lawsuit targets Regulation 43-170, which bans materials depicting sexual conduct in public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, and a memo from Superintendent Ellen Weaver that restricts certain educational concepts.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Carolina filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on behalf of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians and three minor public school students.

"Description of sexual conduct in a book is automatically taken out of schools," ACLU attorney Sam Kennedy explained. "And that subjects two librarians to pun

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