A white Florida school board member has filed a criminal complaint about the inclusion of George M Johnson’s Black queer memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue.
According to a report from The Palm Coast Observer, Jill Woolbright filed a formal complaint with the local sheriff office over the book’s content.
Woolbright, who is a member of the Flager County School Board, claimed that the presence of the memoir breached the states obscenity laws.
Before taking her claim to the authorities, Woolbright reportedly met with the superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt and school board attorney Kristy Gavin.
But after her complaints weren’t relayed to other members of the school board, she filed the paperwork and submitted the book as evidence.
“My concern is for the children of Flagler County. This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center,’ she said.
“This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies. That’s why I felt the need to file the report, so I know it will be investigated.”
The memoir was available in four schools within the district – with one school reportedly pulling it from its campus before the documents were filed.
Colleen Conklin, who serves alongside Woolbright on the school board, opened up about the complaint and called it “disingenuous.”
“All she had to do was send an email to Cathy thanking her for the meeting time and the discussion and looking forward to the outcome of her investigation and cc’d the board members,” she told Flagler Live.
“If she was so worried about the board members knowing, that’s a very simple thing she could have done.”
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