She was Let Go For Refusing to Censor LGBTQ Books~She Got a Pay back
The Central African capital of Bangui, in 2024.Credit...Sam Mednick/Associated Press By Miriam Jordan and Hamed Aleaziz LGBTQ Nation newsletter Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resolution from the county’s all-Republican Quorum Court to remove LGBTQ+ books from the children’s section of the Saline County Library. The settlement was announced last Thursday. In April 2023, the Saline County Quorum Court recommended that local libraries “relocate materials that are not subject matter or age appropriate for children, due to their sexual content or imagery, to an area that is not accessible to children.” The court did this to preemptively comply with Act 372, legislation (later signed into law) that allows city and co...
