Project 2025 Aims to Criminalize Librarians Over Book Content

The Heritage Foundation-backed plan could lead to nationwide censorship and severe penalties for educators.

Project 2025, supported by Trump loyalists, proposes treating librarians and teachers as sex offenders for certain book collections.
The initiative builds on recent state laws in Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Missouri that criminalize book content in public libraries.
Conservative activists have been pushing similar measures across at least 17 states, targeting books they deem inappropriate.
A Texas law enforcement officer recently attempted to file felony charges against librarians for refusing to remove books like Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'.
The plan threatens to narrow literary access for young Americans and impose ideological constraints on public libraries.