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A 40-piece exhibit was put in place in the Ventura County Hall of Administration. The purpose of the exhibit was to to showcase works that would be put up for auction at "A Night of Passion," a fundraiser to support the Ventura Music Festival. +
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A Greenville ibrarian deemed sex scenes in Moore's graphic novel inappropriate, and banned the graphic novel from library shelves. +
E
A Macomb County judge ordered the artist to cover Eve's bare chest or else his mural could be punishable. Roseville ordinances prohibit such nudity; The mural also violates zoning ordinances. +
D
A New Haven Zoning Enforcement Officer decided that the sculpture can be classified as a "sign", and thus demanded its removal (on the grounds that it exceeded the maximum permissible size of a sign). The Chief of Current Planning and Zoning in New Haven wrote an advisory report affirming the inspector's decision. +
A
A Prosser School District teacher lobbied for the removal of that book due its stark portrayal of child abuse and profanity from district libraries. +
P
A Prosser teacher asked that the book be removed from the school library due to its mentioning of homosexuality. +
C
A Russian court banned the music and artwork of Cannibal Corpse, a death metal band, due to potential to the "damage the mental health of children." The court cited that the songs have "descriptions of violence, the physical and mental abuse of people and animals, murder and suicide." +
T
A West Brunswick honor student, a number of parents, and Brunswick County Commissioner Pat Sykes asked the Brunswick County Schools to ban the book stating it is "immoral," "filthy" and "profane." +
A
A council of bishops gathered in Ephesus (or maybe Smyrna) and decided the book did not conform to the public image of Saint Paul that the church wanted to convey. +
C
A few months prior to the opening, the artist was informed of concerns coming from the museum's education department that some of the imagery in his work would make some patrons "uncomfortable, upset, [or] triggered." Sakoguchi provided additional context to his work answering 17 questions and creating 10 short videos of narration. +
M
A high school student was suspended for displaying a banner reading "BONG HITS 4 JESUS" at a parade for which students were permitted to leave school. +
H
A library patron, angered by the manga's homosexual main characters, asked that the comic be removed from library shelves. +
M
A locally released McDonald's ad quickly went viral after its installation on Boston's Orange Mass Transit Line that seemed to mock those suffering from mental illness, addiction, depression, and suicidal tendencies. After David Yamada, a law professor at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School, saw the ad, he immediately blogged about it on the university's blog New Workplace Institute. He called the ad insensitive and found it to be too close to the real thing for it to be funny. While the subway car was filled with other spoof offs of common ad genres, this parody of depression services struck up controversy. The new ad campaign was targeted for younger audiences but apparently has hit a new low. +
P
A nude statue of Prometheus was erected in the "park of heroes of Macedonia" as a part of a public works project aimed to erect statues of Macedonian heroes in the country's capital of Skopje. [http://balkanstory.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/the-naked-prometheus-causes-scandal-in-skopje/] After the statue was put in place, however, several unspecified "women's organizations" asked that the statue's genitalia be covered up. +
C
A parent demanded that the novel be removed from the Currituck County High School library due to the explicit sexual content in the novel. +
B
A parent in a Houston elementary school voiced her concerns that Eloise in Paris is inappropriate for her child because there is nudity in the book and demanded that it be removed from the school's library. +
H
A parent in the North Carolina school, Watauga High School, complained that the amount of graphic descriptions of violence in the novel has diluted the messages of the book's challenging themes and ideas, and she has pleaded before the board to consider having it removed from the district entirely. +
C
A parent in the Northville school of Meads Mill Middle School has claimed that the unedited version of Anne Frank's diary is too "pornographic" and explicit for middle school students and demanded that it be removed from classrooms. Another parent filed a formal complaint with the district, alleging that ''Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (The Definitive Edition)'' is an inappropriate version of the real-life tale of a Jewish family hiding from Nazis during the Holocaust. +
S
A parent in the school district found the material to be offensive and requested that it was removed from the library system. With specific attention to the word "retarded." The complaint states that the language is "not people- first language and is a disrespectful term." +
B
A patron of the library filed a complaint demanding that the book reviewed from the shelves, claiming that the work was "very adult" and "advocates rape and violence". +
