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ALA Banned & Challenged Books
ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.
ALA Selection & Reconsideration Policy Toolkit for Public, School, & Academic Libraries
Ask the Lawyer: Book Challenges and Records Retention
Calm, (Legally) Cool, and Collected
Calm, (Legally) Cool, and Collected: Tactics for Libraries Facing Book Challenges and Collection-based Protests, an ESLN webinar with Ask The Lawyer attorney, Stephanie Cole Adams.
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December 2, 2021
Resources for Book Challenges
This guide, infographic, and applied framework provides support for school librarians in addressing challenges related to censorship and patron privacy issues.

File a complaint: Civil rights & discrimination
New York State Attorney General
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The Office of the New York State Attorney General investigates patterns of discrimination, and enforces laws that protect all New Yorkers from unequal treatment on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, age, marital status, domestic violence victim status, disability, pregnancy-related condition, predisposing genetic characteristics, prior arrest or conviction record, familial status, and gender identity.
NYS Paid Family Leave
Under New York State Law, Paid Family provides protections to workers including: job protection, continued health insurance, and protection from discrimination or retaliation.
NYS Combating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Workers
Know Your Rights and Where You Can Get Help
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Toolkit, complaint form and FAQs for NYS employees

The following crisis resources and warm lines do not use police intervention and do not contact law enforcement.

Call BlackLine
Call BlackLine® provides a space for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences for folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."
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1 (800) 604-5841
LGBT National Help Center
All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to serve the entire community, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.
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(888) 843-4564
THRIVE Lifeline
Trans-led and operated, focusing on people with intersecting marginalized identities. Does not "engage in non-consensual active rescue"
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In crisis? Text: +1.313.662.8209
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for trans people.
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US: 877-565-8860
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line
Warmline answered by a trained peer supporters. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."
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By phone every day:
7pm to 9pm ET Monday through Thursday
7pm-10pm ET Friday through Sunday
Call: 888.407.4515