On April 22, 2026, LION founder Jesse LeVasseur transmitted an Open Demand Letter to the full Allen Independent School District Board of Trustees at the board’s shared address, teamof8@allenisd.org, and to Allen ISD’s Library Services department. The letter asked the board to postpone its scheduled vote on the district’s proposed 818-title library purchase (List 4 — the district’s fourth annual library acquisition slate under the post-SB 13 review process) by ninety days.

Allen ISD’s Local School Library Advisory Council — LSLAC, the citizen body each Texas school district is required to seat under Senate Bill 13 (89th Legislature, 2025) and Texas Education Code §33.025 — reviews proposed library purchases and recommends them to the board for approval. List 4 was scheduled for board vote on May 26, 2026, following the 30-day public-review window required by Texas Education Code §33.026(a)(2).

The letter framed the postponement request around three sources of authority that govern Allen ISD’s collection-development decisions:

• 13 Texas Administrative Code §4.2, the state library-collection standards adopted by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission under House Bill 900 (88th Legislature, 2023), the Texas reader-protection law that directed TSLAC to set school-library collection standards. The rule requires that school library materials be age-appropriate and suitable for the campus and students served.
• Texas Penal Code §43.24, which criminalizes the sale, distribution, or display of material harmful to a minor.
• Allen ISD Board Policy EFA and EFA-R1, the corresponding administrative regulation — the district’s adopted instructional-resources and library-materials standards.

At the time of delivery the letter carried seven public sign-ons collected through LION’s online sign-on form. The full text of the letter and the sign-on list were transmitted to the board, LSLAC, and Library Services under cover of the same transmittal.

The Allen ISD board did not postpone the vote. The follow-on record — the district’s reply, the audit of List 4 against the district’s own production records, and the May 26 board vote — was documented in later updates to this page.

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