Petition to Support our Libraries and Stand Against Censorship

Libraries in Parishes across the state are being targeted for censorship by political special interest groups and we need your help to stop them here in St Tammany. 

 

St Tammany Parish is a welcoming community to all and we stand firmly against banning books.  As such we endorse the following statements:

  • We believe that all people in our Parish deserve to see themselves reflected in our library’s collection.
  • We know a large majority of Americans (75%) across the political spectrum oppose book bans.
  • We stand in opposition to special interest groups seeking to limit access or remove books from our libraries. These groups include the St Tammany Parish Library Accountability Project, Citizens for a New Louisiana, and AG Landry. 
  • We believe parents should decide for themselves what their children read and that individuals and groups from our community should not dictate what other parents let their children read or what books are available in our library. 
  • Limiting access to or banning books from public libraries is a slippery slope to government censorship and a violation of our first amendment rights.
  • We hold our library director and our librarians in high regard and trust them to do their jobs.

We are united against book bans and we ask that our Parish President and Council pledge to act to protect the rights of members of our community to access a variety of books, magazines and other media through our public libraries.

Information about what brought this petition about can be found here.

3,115 signatures

Will you sign?

  • Maggie Frazier
    signed 2023-03-11 18:08:20 -0600
  • Gigi Cassagne
    signed 2023-03-11 11:46:11 -0600
  • Ann Vergin
    signed 2023-03-11 09:07:22 -0600
  • Terri Gage
    signed 2023-03-10 21:07:19 -0600
  • Alisa Brown
    signed 2023-03-10 10:05:14 -0600
  • Christa Shively
    signed 2023-03-10 08:33:30 -0600
  • Allyson Mchale
    signed 2023-03-09 17:45:06 -0600
  • armand richardson
    signed 2023-03-09 14:32:46 -0600
  • Glenda Delaune
    signed 2023-03-09 10:31:59 -0600
  • Cory Stephens
    signed 2023-03-09 09:36:26 -0600
    Grew up in Covington, and don’t want to see conservative book banning and censorship spreading to our libraries.
  • Gregory Riera
    signed 2023-03-09 08:16:58 -0600
  • Oliver Anderson
    signed 2023-03-08 23:22:48 -0600
  • Jolie Pugh
    signed 2023-03-08 11:31:29 -0600
    Signed
  • Lili Julian
    signed 2023-03-08 09:17:33 -0600
  • Danielle Hernandez
    signed 2023-03-08 07:09:18 -0600
  • Keith Greene
    signed 2023-03-08 07:02:36 -0600
    I wanna fight for my right to publish!
  • Natalie Connelly
    signed 2023-03-08 06:24:47 -0600
    Leave parents in charge of parenting their children.
  • Kim Lee
    signed 2023-03-07 18:54:16 -0600
  • Catarina LeGarde
    signed 2023-03-07 17:32:16 -0600
  • Ann Strain
    signed 2023-03-07 13:36:23 -0600
  • Alexis Kesner
    signed 2023-03-07 11:30:21 -0600
  • Edwin Daroca
    signed 2023-03-07 11:05:34 -0600
  • Carly Nguyen
    signed 2023-03-06 20:49:50 -0600
  • Richard Harder
    signed 2023-03-06 20:40:54 -0600
  • Jason Petitjean
    signed 2023-03-06 20:09:04 -0600
  • Kim Ellender
    signed 2023-03-06 19:53:11 -0600
  • Vera Skorupski
    signed 2023-03-06 19:29:44 -0600
  • Christina Erwin
    signed 2023-03-06 15:04:27 -0600
  • Linda Bickel
    signed 2023-03-05 14:19:10 -0600
  • Janet Tassin
    signed 2023-03-05 12:18:03 -0600