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Georgia school district pays $100k to settle lawsuit with mom who exposed explicit library book

Updated: February 24, 2023 at 5:57 pm EST  See Comments

Fri Feb 24, 2023 – 5:31 pm EST

FORSYTH COUNTY, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) – A public school district in Georgia was ordered to pay six-figure legal fees after a lawsuit filed by a group of concerned parents who clashed with the school board over pornographic material in the middle school library.

Fox News reported that last year Alison Hair, an area mother and member of the parents group Mama Bears, attended a Forsyth County School District (FSC) school board meeting, where she objected to her son’s middle school library making available the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close due to its sexual content.

As an example, she began to read a passage describing oral sex but was interrupted and blocked from speaking further. She tried again the following month, and FSC sent her a letter banning her from future school board meetings, claiming she was in violation of the district’s public participation policy.

Hair and Mama Bears enlisted the Institute for Free Speech (IFS) to represent them in a lawsuit filed last July. In November, a federal judge sided with them, forbidding the district from preventing any “current or future FCS speakers entitled to speak at an

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