Jun. 6—A local lawmaker has introduced legislation that he says would close a gap in state law that grants immunity to teachers and school librarians who peddle obscene materials to students, though there is no indication the problem actually exists according to the state’s top education union. “We already have obscenity banned in general, daily […]
Some lawmakers and conservative groups are promoting legislation that would allow North Carolina parents to seek penalties against public schools for having books that the parents consider to be obscene. Legislation will soon be introduced to remove exemptions that public schools have from the state’s obscenity laws, according to Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the […]
A 26-year-old Lubbock man has agreed to plead guilty to acting lewdly on a flight from Dallas to Lubbock last month. Julion Deshaud Immanuel Morris is expected to plead guilty in federal court to a count of committing lewd, indecent or obscene acts on an aircraft and to a count of possession of cocaine. The […]
A 30-year-old is in jail Thursday night on at least 90 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, according to a Montgomery County grand jury indictment. >> Former WHIO-TV reporter recalls turn as witness at O.J. Simpson criminal trial The felony charges on two sets of pandering obscenity involving a minor accuse Dylan Kent. One […]
Apr. 1—Conasauga Judicial Circuit Judge Jim Wilbanks set bond at $100,000 for a 38-year-old man accused of obscene internet contact with a minor in Whitfield Superior Court on Friday, March 29. According to Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office records, defendant Barry Alexander Gordon was initially arrested on March 18. “It is alleged that on or about […]
Some politicians have hit out at planned US arms supplies to Israel. Bernie Sanders said the US could not “beg” Israel to stop bombing civilians and then continue to supply arms. The Biden Administration has authorized a new package worth billions in fighter jets and bombs for Israel. A new US arms package for Israel […]
A South Carolina man was arrested Monday for distributing vulgar, obscene and antisemitic materials in multiple neighborhoods, the Florence County Sheriff’s Office said. Jamin Christian Fite, a 48-year-old Myrtle Beach resident, was charged with seven counts of communicating obscene messages and seven counts of littering, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday in a news release. No […]
Fox Business host Stuart Varney scolded Donald Trump’s campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt like a headmaster admonishing a wayward student. (Watch the video below.) At issue was the former president’s new nickname for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “New-scum.” Varney had a problem with the moniker. “I object to that kind of language. How about you?” […]
This article was originally published in Wisconsin Examiner. One day, teachers and library staff across Wisconsin may find that they could be prosecuted for allowing K-12 students to view certain books or other materials. A new Republican legislative proposal to penalize educators for exposing children to obscene materials comes out of a wider effort to […]