The law, which threatened imprisonment if librarians or booksellers provided ‘harmful’ content to minors, violates the First ...

Holly Dickson, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, said the law “was an attempt to ...

Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Arkansas libraries suing the state over a 2023 law created to limit access by minors to sexually explicit m ...

Republicans passed the law in 2023, joining other conservative states and counties that have sought to restrict the ...

Two key provisions of Act 372, a law which would allow criminal charges to be pressed against librarians and other book ...

A federal judge ruled Monday that an Arkansas law allowing for the prosecution of librarians and booksellers who distribute ...

A federal judge struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and ...

A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked portions of Arkansas’ law that would have changed how librarians handle ...

A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional two provisions of a state law aimed at criminalizing the furnishing of ...

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372 in March 2023. A few months later, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks temporarily blocked implementation of Sections 1 and 5 of the law—and on ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arkansas celebrated the ruling, writing: “This was an attempt to 'thought police ...

A federal judge declared parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers ...