HCPSS MPIA Request #2024-136

Requestor
Lia Gorbach
Organization/Agency
Capital News Service
Requested Information
Under Md. General Provisions Code Ann. Secs. 4-101 to 4-601, I am requesting the following
documents about book challenges and removals from your school district:
1. Written policies detailing or governing the removal, temporary or otherwise, of books
from your district.
2. Copies of memos or other documents that detail removal of specific books from district
libraries.
3. District policy documents that detail the process for removal of books or other materials
from libraries in the district.
I am requesting all data relating to this topic from January 2020 through February 2024.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
By book title in the above list, documentation regarding the removal of each. Under MPIA GP ยง 4-330, we have redacted sociological information where it contains personal addresses and/or has the potential to pose a risk to individual safety or privacy.

*Some request language is summarized to include the requester's specific document requests and legally protected information (such as personally identifiable information of a student) or personal, defamatory and malicious content removed at the discretion of the school system.

**Responses containing legally protected information available only to the person of interest are omitted from the above report.

***Howard County Public Schools reserves the right to remove erroneous or outdated documents from this site.