Annelise Hanshaw writes: “A Jackson County (Mo.) Circuit Court judge struck down a state law criminalizing school employees for supplying ‘sexually explicit material’ to students, ruling it unconstitutionally vague and overbroad in a five-page decision November 17. The now-void law, passed by Missouri lawmakers in 2022, expanded the state’s regulations on pornography to create the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student. It applied only to those ‘affiliated with a public or private elementary or secondary school in an official capacity.’ The Missouri Association of School Librarians and Missouri Library Association challenged the law in 2023.
