Arguing that their First Amendment rights have been violated, three parents have gone to a federal appeals court after a district judge tossed out their challenge to a state school book review process. The parents from St. Johns and Orange counties filed a notice of appeal last week after U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in January sided with the State Board of Education and dismissed their lawsuit.

In 2022, The American Library Association documented 1,269 requests to remove books from libraries across the United States – the most the organization ever recorded.