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TexasTowelie

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Tue Feb 2, 2021, 06:59 AM Feb 2021

ACLU Sues After Man Banned From Library Over Trump Poem [View all]

The Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing Jackson County because a Seymour man has been banned from the public library.

Richard England says he was banned from the library in November after he wrote what his attorney called a “short and unoffensive” poem about President Trump. England left the poem for a library employee with whom he was friends.

“When that individual was not there, he left it on a basket in the circulation desk,” said attorney Gavin Rose.

“When he got home, he had a voicemail from an officer with the Seymour police department saying the library essentially trespassed him,” Rose added.

Read more: https://indianapublicradio.org/news/2021/01/aclu-sues-after-man-banned-from-library-over-trump-poem/

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