Unlike the House of Representatives who heard the Lock-up Librarians Act – House Bill 1239 – in House Education, upon receipt of the measure, the Senate has assigned the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee because, it has nothing to do with education, and everything to do with throwing librarians in jail for up to a year for a criminal act if there’s something in a book that someone objects to!
The bill will be before Senators Wheeler, Hulse, Blanc, Duhamel, Grove, Mehlhaff, and Pischke in the coming days, so please contact your state senators and encourage them to kill this idiotic bill that’s a massive overreach of government, and deliver a message that there are processes already in place to address the material, and we don’t need new laws to throw Librarians, teachers and museum workers in jail.
You can find their contacts here.
It should die in this committee. There’s enough decent senators there to get it done. Pischke will be for locking up the librarians and Hulse is a wildcard, as she’s been all over the map. Depends on whether or not she wants to play to her crazy base or use her own reasoning.
Hulse’s actions this session have not instilled confidence at all siding with the crazy wackadoodle faction like Logan Manhart who has done a great job firing up constituents to replace this nut.
Grove will probably vote with Senator Deadbeat Dad.
MANHART NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!!
Former legislator and now Brown County Commissioner Drew Dennert another weird political extremist has been very active recently on Logan Manhart’s FB page defending him from constituents and other South Dakotans negatively affected by Manhart’s atrocious bills.
Well these over confident and arrogant political extremists that manipulated their way into power have stirred up a hornets nest and those hornets are pissed!
Might need that new prison if this goes through
Well, at least the prison library will be well managed.
Might need that new prison if this goes through😜
That’s about right! Librarians. Teachers, Those working at museums. Those who are Trans and what next? Cats and dogs living together? They are targeted next!
How is this law actually going to be enforced? Libraries in South Dakota have millions of books, articles, magazines and videos. They have many employees. Tens of thousands of students – different ages.
Do we post a smut cop at every exit? Is some goody two-shoes going to peruse every book before it’s checked out? This looks like yet another law that makes life more complicated. Library staff may have to refuse access to half of the books, just to be shielded from this law.
And what about books like the Bible that discuss adult themes? Let’s hope that the senate puts a stop to this.
Well, according to them, it’s not enforced and that’s why it’s ok. They point out in other states librarians haven’t been arrested yet and that it wouldn’t actually happen. Then I ask, what is the point of this bill? Creating an unenforceable law? We are dealing with some very poor legislative minds this session. Embarrassing for the state.
Hulse is the swing vote.
Yes, Pischke will vote in favor of Soye’s legislation…..”everything is obscene, just ask me.” However, Wheeler has done some pretty dumb stuff this legislative session as well. I was particularly amused when I heard Wheeler say in committee, “I know we are going to get sued, I know that we are going to lose that suit, but I have to vote in favor of the bill.” I hate to say it, but I think it comes out of Senate Judiciary with a “Do Pass.”