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Long floor debate on LB390 over school library tracking and parental access ends with bill advanced
Summary
LB390 would require school boards to adopt policies allowing parents or educational decision makers to access certain library information; the bill prompted an extensive floor debate over parental rights, student privacy and school autonomy and was advanced to E & R.
Lawmakers advanced LB390, a bill that would require each school board to adopt a policy giving parents, guardians or educational decision makers access to certain school library information and notifications about materials their child checks out.
Sponsor Senator Merman said LB390 is a transparency measure that "asks schools to have some form of method that can be put in place to notify parents of the books their children check out," and noted the committee amendment removed a requirement that information be posted online to accommodate smaller schools. He emphasized the bill does not ban books or restrict library…
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