School district pays $100,000 after banning a woman who exposed the sexually explicit material available in school libraries
A Georgia school district will be paying the $100,000 in legal fees of Mother Bears, a local parent’s group, after it banned one of its members from attending board meetings, The Blaze reports. The group took legal action against the Forsyth County School District when Alison Hair was banned after reading sexually explicit excerpts from a book entitled, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” during a February 2022 board meeting. Mother Bears was attempting to sound the alarm about the type of materials available in public school libraries. During Hair’s first attempt to read from the book available at her son’s middle school, she was interrupted by a board member and stopped from reading the pornographic passage. After Hair attempted to read from it again at a second meeting, the school board sent a letter banning her from attending further school board meetings. This resulted in Mother Bears launching a lawsuit against the school board in July 2022. The Blaze provides more details of the successful lawsuit: “People cannot fairly pass judgment on books that they …