A Texas Lawman's Two Year Fight to Incarcerate Librarians Over Books

For 2+ years, a Texas lawman with ties to the Oath Keepers sought to charge school librarians with felonies.

Their crimes?

Books.

You might think we're being overly hyperbolic when we talk about the far right's desire to round up and arrest librarians for the books on the shelves.

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But we've seen them attempt, and in some cases succeed, in passing legislation in state after state to allow for the incarceration of librarians and we know that they have a larger agenda of making it easier to arrest librarians as part of Project 2025.

That's why we're fighting so hard against Project 2025 and this kind of legislation.

Now, a recent report from Mike Hixenbaugh, Tyler Kingkade, Scott Friedman, and Eva Parks for NBC News uncovered the sensational details of a Texas Lawman who spent two years trying to arrest librarians.

In his sights were three school librarians in Granbury, Texas, because they had allowed children to access literature such as “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. Chief Deputy Constable Scott London deemed these books obscene and wanted the librarians to be arrested and charged with a felony.

An 824-page investigative file obtained by NBC News and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth shows how, for two years, London vigorously pursued felony charges against librarians in the Granbury Independent School District.

The investigation came to an end in June after Hood County District Attorney Ryan Sinclair turned down London’s request to indict the librarians, citing a lack of conclusive evidence to charge them with felonies.

No matter the outcome, there has never been a time when they stopped at arresting librarians.

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