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.

3,422 signatures

Will you sign?

  • Susanna Alexander
    signed 2022-12-03 19:23:18 -0600
  • Jenn Daley
    signed via 2022-12-03 19:18:10 -0600
  • Stephanie Cooke
    signed via 2022-12-03 19:04:36 -0600
  • Kody Yesenosky
    signed via 2022-12-03 19:03:18 -0600
  • Bruce Hebert
    signed 2022-12-03 18:52:56 -0600
    Please allow us all access to the knowledge we want
  • Emily LeJeune
    signed via 2022-12-03 18:44:09 -0600
  • Gwen Seeger
    signed via 2022-12-03 18:30:04 -0600
  • Klayton Robertson
    signed 2022-12-03 18:19:35 -0600
  • Kristin Samuelson
    signed via 2022-12-03 18:04:40 -0600
  • Elizabeth Broom
    signed 2022-12-03 17:18:54 -0600
  • Jenny Carleton
    signed via 2022-12-03 17:07:52 -0600
  • Leslie Landry
    signed 2022-12-03 16:31:25 -0600
    Censorship is abhorrent
  • Roberta Carrow Jackson
    signed via 2022-12-03 16:30:31 -0600
  • Cindi Wilgus -fox
    signed 2022-12-03 16:27:13 -0600
  • Veleka Gray
    signed 2022-12-03 16:25:27 -0600
  • Ashley Rodrigue
    signed 2022-12-03 16:07:04 -0600
  • Cheryl Roche
    signed via 2022-12-03 15:58:59 -0600
  • Angelle Escousse
    signed 2022-12-03 15:13:20 -0600
  • Aaron Branton
    signed 2022-12-03 15:02:59 -0600
  • Jenna Brown
    signed 2022-12-03 14:42:50 -0600
  • Jessica Albert
    signed 2022-12-03 14:32:08 -0600
  • Tracy Conway
    signed 2022-12-03 14:26:01 -0600
    Maybe these people should ban the bible, the one book that truly deserves to be eradicated.
  • Dylan Schiffman
    signed 2022-12-03 14:04:53 -0600
  • Jennifer Branton
    signed 2022-12-03 14:01:40 -0600
  • Jamie Bissett
    signed 2022-12-03 13:59:24 -0600
  • Hew Hamilton
    signed via 2022-12-03 13:57:15 -0600
  • helen demoss
    signed 2022-12-03 13:53:45 -0600
  • Tom Chapman
    signed 2022-12-03 13:52:27 -0600
    Those who wish to ban books are committing an abomination unto the Lord
  • Sandra Petersen
    signed 2022-12-03 13:47:23 -0600
  • Melissa Schiffman
    signed 2022-12-03 13:30:23 -0600