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Former state Sen. Jason Rapert was unable to secure a second for his motion to withhold funding from libraries currently suing the state.
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The former senator was approved in a vote of 22-10 without discussion.
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The 7-person board makes decisions about state funding for libraries.
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Former Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert, appointed to the state Library Board on Monday, currently leads a nationwide group of Christian conservative lawmakers.
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Officials want “more clarity as to what’s acceptable and what’s not,” a district spokeswoman says.
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Advocacy groups have spent months campaigning to fire Patty Hector from her job leading the Saline County Library.
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Former Saline County Library Director Patty Hector was terminated after she refused to remove books containing LGBTQ characters and themes from the library.
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The Saline County Quorum Court now has the power to hire and fire library employees.
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Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.