The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting libraries from enacting book bans due to political pressure.
The bill would require that as a condition of qualifying for those grants in the future, libraries or library systems would have to adopt a written policy prohibiting the practice of banning books. Alternatively, they could adopt the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights, which includes a statement that "aterials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
One of the school districts that came under pressure to remove the book was Community High School District 99, in Downers Grove, in Stava-Murray's district. According to a June 2022 Chicago Sun-Times story, the pressure was generated by a group of conservative parents and members of the Proud Boys, but students in the district pushed back and the board eventually voted unanimously to keep the book on the shelves.
Some Republicans, however, argued that public libraries are governed by locally elected boards, and that those boards should have the authority to decide how best to serve their communities. "I am not for banning books at all," he said. "I am for age-appropriate materials. And so, if a parent wants their kid to have those age-appropriate materials, they can certainly get them for them. I don't think that a librarian is the end-all, be-all decision maker in the state of Illinois on what books should be given to a child."
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