Heather Bellow in The Berkshire Eagle reports that the American Civil Liberties Union wants to know why a police office searched a classroom at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington for the coming of age novel, "Gender Queer" after receiving one anonymous complaint. The plainclothed police officer who entered an eighth grade classroom to look for a wanted book wore a body camera and recorded the incident. Ruth A. Bourquin, senior and managing attorney for the ACLU of Massachusetts, said, “Police going into schools and searching for books is the sort of thing you hear about in communist China and Russia. What are we doing?” The Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee and Superintendent Peter Dillion put out a statement that said, "Faced with an unprecedented police investigation of what should be a purely educational issue, we tried our best to serve the interests of students, families, teachers, and staff. In hindsight, we would have approached that moment differently. We are sorry. We can do better to refine and support our existing policies. We are committed to supporting all our students, particularly vulnerable populations." An anonymous complaint led Great Barrington Police to open an investigation into whether parts of the book, “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, are obscene material or pornographic. The District Attorney has ordered the police investigation into the book closed, so now any controversy is up to the school. And the ACLU wants a copy of the bodycam footage from the classroom police visit. Read more about this story in The Berkshire Eagle.