Civil rights advocates are decrying a Massachusetts police department’s response to an anonymous complaint about an LGBTQ-centric book at a school, calling the department’s action — sending an officer to the school to “investigate” the matter — an overreach and an intimidation tactic.
A plainclothes officer wearing a body camera entered a middle school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, earlier this month in search of a single book after the police department received a complaint from a community member about its contents.
