[Libs-Or] FW: [alacoun] Library worker arrested in library after defending patron's free speech

[Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney]

I agree it is outrageous! I haven't yet been able to find any sources
other than the linked article, though; anyone else had any luck? 

Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney, MLIS
Library Director
Driftwood Public Library
801 SW Hwy 101, #201
Lincoln City, OR 97367
541-996-1251 (desk)
541-996-1262 (fax)
www.driftwoodlib.org


>>> "Rawles, Carolyn" <Carolyn.Rawles at corvallisoregon.gov> 9/29/2016
9:00 AM >>>
I don’t know how many of you saw this, but this seems pretty
outrageous!  
 
Carolyn
 
Carolyn Rawles
Library Director
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Corvallis, OR  97330
 
(541)766-6910
 
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From: alacoun-request at lists.ala.org
[mailto:alacoun-request at lists.ala.org]On Behalf Of Aaron W. Dobbs
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 7:28 AM
To: ALA Council List <alacoun at lists.ala.org>
Subject: [alacoun] Library worker arrested in library after defending
patron's free speech
 
Library Worker Heroically Defends Patron’s Free Speech, Is Brutally
Arrested in Library Where He Works
http://bordc.org/news/library-worker-heroically-defends-patrons-free-speech-brutally-arrested-library-works/
 
“For someone to be assaulted and then arrested for asking a question,
in a public library of all places, is abhorrent. The library should be a
place where people of all points of view can feel safe and welcome,”
Steve Woolfolk, director of public programing at the Kansas City Public
Library told the Dissent NewsWire. 
...
“I have spent the last 10 years of my life trying to cultivate that
atmosphere through public programming at the library. Library staff
should be the final arbiters of what constitutes reasonable discourse at
a public event held inside a public library,” Woolfolk explained to the
Dissent NewsWire. Yet, when he tried to intervene on the questioner’s
behalf, Woolfolk found himself arrested at an event he helped plan.
...
Woolfolk stands charged with interfering with the arrest of
Rothe-Kushel. Rothe-Kushel, like Woolfolk feared, was charged with
trespassing and resisting arrest. “Nobody, be it an individual or an
agent of the state, should be able to take it upon themselves to silence
a point of view simply because they disagree,” Woolfolk informed the
Dissent NewsWire. Yet, it would appear that not only is that exactly
what happened, but a librarian who tried to make sure that a public
library remained a public forum was arrested, as well.

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