The Connecticut Freedom to Read law passed in June 2025.

This page will be updated with information as it becomes available.

If you are a CASL member, visit the Member's only section of PD & Resources for more inrormation. 

If you have questions, please email intellectualfreedom@ctcasl.org. 

If you have a challenge to materials, display, or programming, your first click should be the New England Intellectual Freedom Helpline: bit.ly/IFHelplineNewEng .

Please report even if you do not need support and even if it is not an official challenge. This provides data so that legislators, school boards, administrators and the community understand that this is an issue in Connecticut.

Further resources:

American Library Association website: https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport

ALA Challenge Report 

https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report

 

ALA How to Respond to Challenges and Concerns about Library Resources

https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/respond

 

ALA Formal Requests for Reconsideration

https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/requestforreconsideration


ALA Selection Policy Toolkit

https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit 

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Texas librarians defending the right to read.


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Connecticut librarians brace for "tsunami" of  book challenges

Published February 7, 2022 at 7:45 AM EST

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Recorded September 19, 2022



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