Two men are being sued for defamation by the Louisiana school librarian who was accused of being “a pedophile” for wanting to keep “pornographic material” in a public library’s children’s section, according to a lawsuit.
Middle school librarian Amanda Jones filed the lawsuit Wednesday that said Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames, who are also from Louisiana, have run separate Facebook pages that falsely claim the librarian is trying to instruct children as young as 11 years old about sexual acts with her anti-censorship stance.
The accusations against Ms. Jones — the 2021 School Library Journal National Librarian of the Year and president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians — stem from her public remarks made during a Livingston Parish Library board meeting last month about potentially removing certain books.