The Rating Machine, Year by Year

Full record. NBRI-folder reading notes (Harmer lineage) retell a 1964 DA confiscation of pornographic material rated "8.5/10" in severity

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Full record. Harmer introduced California SB 372, proposing a "California Motion Picture Review Board" to rate and review films; the MPAA later adopted its own rating system instead. RatedBooks/NBRI's own rating-scale page footnotes "first introduced in 1968" and links not to MPA rating history but to notes on Harmer as this 1968 CA state senator/anti-pornography campaigner — the origin of the RatedBooks scale page's "1968" citation

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Full record. Harmer, later cited as the "1968" authority footnoted on the RatedBooks scale page, was the California state senator behind SB 372

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Full record. Robert Bork published "Slouching Towards Gomorrah," part of the obscenity-law lineage Harmer's book and the NBRI reading notes draw on

Anchor #e-0039 · record BBA-0039

Full record. The RatedBooks founder completed an M.A. capstone in Critical and Creative Thinking at UMass Boston, arguing conflict is located in personal perspective rather than diversity

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Full record. Earliest Wayback capture of ratedbooks.org shows a foreign-language comic-book cataloging site UNRELATED to book rating

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Full record. The Utah nonprofit later known as Empowered Parents is incorporated as PARENTS EMPOWERED IN EDUCATION RESOURCES AND SUPPORT, file number 9699080. Sole incorporator and initial registered agent: Audrey Sill of West Jordan UT. Stated purpose: "Help parents with children of all abilities to advocate for their child's education through coaching, training, and providing them with connections to educational resources as well as help parents uphold their parental rights in education"

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Full record. RatedBooks' own "Background Information" page states Gov. Herbert signed SCR009 in April 2016 and cites it as founding rationale

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Full record. S&S Apps, LLC formed as a California LLC; predates RatedBooks by seven years and later operates the National Book Rating Index

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Full record. The origin product, a teacher lesson-resource organizer called The Resource Queue, is exhibited at a state language-teachers conference; its brochure names both co-founders and carries the phone number still used by the book-rating properties in 2026

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Full record. The Wix site later rebranded "Stop Utah Porn" carries a footer copyright "(c)2019 by HEED Parent Teacher Alliance"

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Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. The storylabs.online /heart page is live and self-describes HEART as "A New California Sex Ed Curriculum" / "Health Education and Relationship Training", claiming CHYA (California Healthy Youth Act) compliance and an independent law-firm audit using the ASHWG CAT tool; the same page banners the company as a finalist in the LaunchPad Language Education Technology Competition at ACTFL. 2019 pricing $3 student / $15 teacher / $25 classroom. The OLDEST product page on the domain.

Anchor #e-0760 · record BBA-0760

Full record. Earliest targeting artifact: "Obscene Books in Utah Public Schools" spreadsheet — 44 of 225 rows carry a "Date Added" value, ranging 2021-01-04 to 2021-12-07 and clustering Nov-Dec 2021; sourced mostly to Facebook/Dailywire/tinyurl with ZERO court or professional-review citations; predates RatedBooks branding and is a direct ancestor

Anchor #e-0104 · record BBA-0104

Full record. S&S Apps LLC domesticated into Utah (Statement of Domestication, CA->UT), effective date; registered agent InCorp Services

Anchor #e-0105 · record BBA-0105

Full record. Utah Parents United (entity 12213207-0140) formed — originated the "LaVerna/Mary in the Library" persona template and later became a named RatedBooks backer

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Full record. The storylabs.online /americanfreedom landing page and the product "How you can help preserve and protect American freedom" are live; the page states 1776 Unites gave express permission to S&S Apps LLC to digitally distribute its free curricula

Anchor #e-0762 · record BBA-0762

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Nichole Sex Ed UPU" (I2kvUIndDzA), 29 views as of 2026-08-18. 85-minute UPU sex-ed class.

Anchor #e-0872 · record BBA-0872

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "UPU Sex Ed Brooke Stephens" (Kh3V3oML-tk), 24 views as of 2026-08-18. 41-minute UPU sex-ed class.

Anchor #e-0873 · record BBA-0873

Full record. Brooke Stephens is ADDED to the Empowered Parents paperwork: the annual report for entity 9699080-0140, then still named PARENTS EMPOWERED IN EDUCATION RESOURCES AND SUPPORT, moves Becky Jean Unker out of the Director slot and Brooke Stephens in, and in the same filing moves Jody Sailor out and Corrine Johnson in. Signed Audrey Sill, 08/19/2021

Anchor #e-0855 · record BBA-0855

Full record. The same entity, 9699080-0140, changes its name: Articles of Amendment state "The name of the corporation is: Parents Empowered in Educational Resources and Support" and "the new name of the corporation is: Empowered Parents", adopted by unanimous board vote on 2021-10-26 and signed in November 2021. The same amendment changes Article V from "Executive Director is hired" to "Executive Director may be hired"

Anchor #e-0853 · record BBA-0853

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "How to find books in Utah Public School District Libraries" (bRXtEQ5-JPg), 682 views as of 2026-08-18. Step 1 of a five-part how-to sequence; linked from the UPU LaVerna funnel capture.

Anchor #e-0874 · record BBA-0874

Full record. QSaltLake published "Utah Parents United targets LGBTQ books," naming the operator "curriculum director" and documenting UPU's tactic of referring books to law enforcement

Anchor #e-0118 · record BBA-0118

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Book Spreadsheet Introduction" (6npvNq8xryg), 52 views as of 2026-08-18. Step 3 of the how-to sequence; linked from the UPU LaVerna funnel capture.

Anchor #e-0875 · record BBA-0875

Full record. The email later used as RatedBooks.org's registered-agent contact was ALREADY on Utah Parents United's "LaVerna in the Library" page, ~4 months before the ratedbooks.org domain existed

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Full record. The RatedBooks founder launched Amplify-USA, a civic-mobilization app later published by S&S Apps LLC, per her own bio

Anchor #e-0132 · record BBA-0132

Full record. KUTV reported "she has set up a website, ratedbooks.org... where parents can read explicit details of content of school library books"

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Full record. Wayback: bwentzel6.wixsite.com/website-7 (formerly stoputahporn.com) shows NO rating system; links UPU and "Laverna/Mary in the Library"

Anchor #e-0138 · record BBA-0138

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "How to Make Public Comment in Utah Legislative Meetings" (CgDwr4gmj7c), 101 views as of 2026-08-18. Step 5 of the how-to sequence.

Anchor #e-0876 · record BBA-0876

Full record. The libraryexposed.com domain created (anonymous, single-district site targeting a Missouri district); linked ONE-DIRECTIONALLY from ratedbooks.org's source list

Anchor #e-0141 · record BBA-0141

Full record. Academic blog "Adventures in Censorship" published "Motives in Book Banning," alleging the operator challenged books she had not read

Anchor #e-0142 · record BBA-0142

Full record. Utah House Education holds HB374's hearing: sponsor presents "with the assistance of ... Brooke Stephens, Utah Parents United" and a district superintendent; UPU's president spoke in favor, an ACLU attorney spoke against; committee replaced 1st Sub. with 2nd Sub. (13-0-2), passed favorably (11-2-2)

Anchor #e-0143 · record BBA-0143

Full record. Coalition one-pager filed as an HB374 hearing handout, citing stoputahporn.com and naming ~24 supporting organizations (Utah Parents United first, then Utah Eagle Forum, United Families International, Worldwide Organization For Women, and others)

Anchor #e-0144 · record BBA-0144

Full record. A second HB374 hearing handout (packet p.14), branded with a StopUtahPorn.com QR code and UPU logo, printed excerpted book passages as objectionable, alongside the stoputahporn.com/bwentzel6 web address

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Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. Wayback captures of stoputahporn.com show only a 302 redirect to a Wix shop page (bwentzel6.wixsite.com/website-7) across this window (2 captures); the redirect is confirmed already active by 2022-03-03

Anchor #e-0147 · record BBA-0147

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Full record. The HEED-branded predecessor of ratedbooks.org points its readers at UPU's website: bwentzel6.wixsite.com/website-7 says twice in visible body text "see our lists and tutorials at Utah Parents United, https://www.utahparentsunited.org/laverna.html" and "Sign up with us today!"

Anchor #e-0843 · record BBA-0843

Full record. The ratedbooks.org domain created (WHOIS), registrar Squarespace, registrant organization "Queue App Development" (CA)

Anchor #e-0153 · record BBA-0153

Full record. BookLooks, the Moms for Liberty-linked review site later absorbed by NBRI, founded by an ex-Moms for Liberty member; booklooks.org domain registered ~10 days before its Florida LLC filing and ONE DAY before a Moms for Liberty county chapter posted an identical ratings graphic

Anchor #e-0154 · record BBA-0154

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Full record. RatedBooks' "Background Information" page embeds a screenshot dated 2022-03-28 above its citation of the May 2020 ALA webinar

Anchor #e-0156 · record BBA-0156

Full record. Empowered Parents filed a Summary of Online Changes; a director at the same Layton address as RatedBooks was removed from the principal record, no reason stated

Anchor #e-0157 · record BBA-0157

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Adding spreadsheet to Google My Maps" (zV0YR7U0rP0), 60 views as of 2026-08-18. Step 4 of the how-to sequence; linked from the NBRI site sweep capture.

Anchor #e-0877 · record BBA-0877

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "How to Search Follett and make a map of locations for multiple schools" (WxpdKPzfCV8), 2318 views as of 2026-08-18. Step 2 of the how-to sequence and the MOST-VIEWED of the 14 unlisted videos - more than the other thirteen combined. Follett/Destiny is the same catalog instrument named elsewhere in this corpus.

Anchor #e-0878 · record BBA-0878

Full record. Brooke Stephens records and uploads the unlisted tutorial "How to Search Follett and make a map of locations for multiple schools" (WxpdKPzfCV8, 12:47). Demonstrates follett.com/aasp/ui/pick, sets Location to the WHOLE Granite School District, pulls the title list from ratedbooks.org, sorts by rating fives-first, plots schools on Google My Maps, adds a how-to-challenge URL and shares by TinyURL, "send it to the principal". States the template lives on the maps button of ratedbooks.org and that "this will be the video I'm making right now".

Anchor #e-0879 · record BBA-0879

Full record. Wayback shows a live 1-5 "Rating System" scale appears on ratedbooks.org for the first time, plus new multi-state pages (Fulton/Coweta GA, MI, PA) — the product followed the law by ~10 weeks

Anchor #e-0166 · record BBA-0166

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. Rating merchandise appears on the storylabs.online CURRICULUM storefront: YA2-YA5 "Youth Advisory Ratings" stickers, the "Youth Advisory Ratings Sticker Shop" page, and a "custom district Google My Maps rated book list" product

Anchor #e-0763 · record BBA-0763

Full record. Utah Parents United posted a 124-second video, "We Just Hit 10,000 Followers On Instagram", whose description asks for a $10 donation and gives a Venmo handle alongside the Anedot link: "Venmo: @UtahParents-United". The same description states "We are a non-profit parent support group run entirely by parent volunteers. None of us are paid!"

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Full record. Earliest FULL Wayback capture of ratedbooks.org with real page content (97KB, already a working rating site), ~3.5 months after domain registration

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Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. RETRACTED AND REPLACED 2026-08-18: ratedbooks.org never had a Stop Utah Porn branding era. Its first capture, 2022-05-18, is an HTTP 302 of 374 bytes; its first HTTP 200 content capture, 2022-07-12, is ALREADY titled "Home - HEED Parent Teacher Alliance", and that title holds through 2023-06-08. The title switches to "Rated Books" by 2023-07-25

Anchor #e-0828 · record BBA-0828

Full record. USBE's 2022 Instructional Materials Review Report REJECTS both storylabs.online curriculum products, as consecutive records. Record 2234 "HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training (A New Sex Ed Curriculum)" is marked Reviewed-Not Recommended / Rejected, with the recommendation "to uphold the denial and remove it as a teacher resource"; record 2235 "1776 Unites" is marked Rejected. The Standards and Assessment Committee took the report as action item 12.4; Member L. Belnap moved to approve and forward it to the Board and "the motion passed unanimously"

Anchor #e-0788 · record BBA-0788

Full record. Media Matters published "Moms for Liberty... front groups," mapping the M4L/BookLooks founder lineage; does NOT mention RatedBooks/NBRI

Anchor #e-0181 · record BBA-0181

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. UPU's own website starts referring readers to RatedBooks. The page utahparentsunited.org/laverna.html, a numbered four-step how-to titled "LaVerna IN THE LIBRARY", gains three ratedbooks.org URLs and one storylabs.online URL. STEP 2 tells readers "RatedBooks.org is a searchable website that has cataloged the rated reports of over 300 books"; STEP 4 says "RatedBooks will create a district page for Utah school districts for free if you fill out this form. (Out of state costs $35 here.)" and that link goes to storylabs.online/product-page/custom-ratedbooks-homepage

Anchor #e-0844 · record BBA-0844

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. Four products are present together on storylabs.online: the $50 "RATEDbooks webpage for your school or district", "Harmful to Minors" warning stickers, "State of Utah" warning stickers, and the /hb243 page - a Utah Warning Label Law complaint kit citing Utah Code 78B-6-2103 and a $500-per-violation penalty, instructing readers to research their school's catalog, document findings with screenshots, and submit the form to the offending party and the Utah Attorney General

Anchor #e-0765 · record BBA-0765

Full record. Stephens told KUTV she had filed 27 challenges in Davis SD, with ZERO removed as of the report; district said it had removed none and was setting up up to 10 review committees

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Anchor #e-0186 · record BBA-0186

Full record. Deseret News op-ed names RatedBooks.org as the compliance measure for the author's own HB374 law, citing its 1-5 scale, rating an LGBTQ-themed title a "2," and citing a Rasmussen 69% figure without disclosing CRI sponsorship or the "homosexual sex" question wording

Anchor #e-0188 · record BBA-0188

Full record. The operator published a Public Square essay citing a Rasmussen poll finding 69% opposed explicit-sex-depicting books in high-school libraries

Anchor #e-0190 · record BBA-0190

Full record. Book Riot published a piece on "biased online book rating systems" describing RatedBooks/LaVerna/Mary-in-the-Library as collaborating with UPU, No Left Turn in Education, and stopschoolporn

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Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. ratedbooks.org's own member directory names Brooke Stephens as Admin: the archived page /profile/bwentzel/profile carries the page title "Brooke Stephens - Profile", the handle bwentzel, the role Admin and a join date of Jun 30 2019 - captured while the site was branded HEED Parent Teacher Alliance

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Full record. The "Explicit Materials Brochure" ($55) and the Amplify USA subscription page are on the storylabs.online storefront

Anchor #e-0766 · record BBA-0766

Full record. Book Riot reported RatedBooks.org ALREADY existed as "an arm of Utah Parents United and No Left Turn in Education," with over 300 books cataloged — predating BookLooks' shutdown and RatedBooks' own 2025 incorporation by more than two years

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Anchor #e-0215 · record BBA-0215

Full record. Google My Map "Davis School District, Utah (DSD) - Ratedbooks.org" published, layer "4/17/23 - DSD Books needing to be challenged", legend "Blue = rated 5 & 4 (worst) Yellow = Rated 4, 3", 32 pins across Davis District including the district office and FIVE elementary schools (Sunburst, Sunset, Tolman, Wasatch, and Windridge in the 2022 version). Header links tinyurl.com/challengebooks. Views as reported by Google My Maps on 2026-08-18: 89,552.

Anchor #e-0880 · record BBA-0880

Anchor #e-0225 · record BBA-0225

Full record. A second Utah Parents United video, 42 seconds, "'Parents, do you agree?'", repeats the Venmo handle in its description - "Venmo: @UtahParents-United" - above a link to utahparentsunited.org/donate.html, and carries a burned-in on-screen overlay across its closing frames reading "UtahParentsUnited.org/donate".

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Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. The /freedomined page is live - S&S Apps operates a curriculum portal for FREEDOM IN EDUCATION on the same platform; the sibling /trustedresources page carries the identical 1776 Unites permission sentence with the parenthetical changed to "S&S Apps LLC (Freedom in Education)"

Anchor #e-0767 · record BBA-0767

Full record. Community Voice (Kansas) published "Inside the Book Ban Machine," naming Moms for Liberty, Truth in Education, No Left Turn, BookLooks, RatedBooks, and Louisiana affiliates as a national network

Anchor #e-0242 · record BBA-0242

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "UPU Class from 10/23: 12 Steps to Avoiding Parent Burnout by Jessica Bianco of Kimber Academy" (oCpIFBaSy0Y), 94 views as of 2026-08-18. 69-minute UPU class.

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Anchor #e-0245 · record BBA-0245

Full record. The operator became Civic Engagement Director of Utah Moms for America, per her own bio

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Full record. A Transparent Utah record shows a 2024 payment of $1,605 to payee "Brooke Stephens Or Aaron Stephens"; purpose NOT disclosed by the portal

Anchor #e-0258 · record BBA-0258

Full record. Same [Utah/UPU tracking] spreadsheet's "35 Utah locations" tab shows a district sweep for Sunrise on the Reaping dated 2024, still unremoved

Anchor #e-0259 · record BBA-0259

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "1/4/23 HomeFront - Feminism 101" (wgVDA2arHiU), 18 views as of 2026-08-18. Linked from the Empowered Parents monthly-parent-classes page.

Anchor #e-0883 · record BBA-0883

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Introduction to HEART Sex Ed Curricula" (maVI_W1NSB4), 9 views as of 2026-08-18. Linked from the Empowered Parents monthly-parent-classes page. HEART is the curriculum USBE recorded as Rejected.

Anchor #e-0884 · record BBA-0884

Full record. Utah House Education heard HB29, adopted Amendment #1 (11-1-3), passed favorably (10-2-3); sponsor presented with Brooke Stephens (UPU, "Educator Director") and a second co-presenter; ULA and ACLU also spoke; KSL quoted Stephens' committee remarks naming ratedbooks.org the same day

Anchor #e-0265 · record BBA-0265

Full record. Same afternoon, House Education heard companion HB182; testimony from Worldwide Organization for Women, Utah Eagle Forum, and Utah Parents United

Anchor #e-0266 · record BBA-0266

Full record. Utah Senate Education heard 1st Sub. HB29, replaced with 1st Sub (4-2-3), adopted Amendment #1 (6-0-3), REJECTED Amendment #2 (2-4-3), passed 1st Sub. favorably (5-1-3); Stephens co-presented, rendered "Brooke Stevens, citizen" in the minutes (one-letter clerical variant, no org); substitute creating the final statewide-removal mechanism passed 5-1; amendment protecting public read-aloud FAILED 2-4; a co-presenter later co-founded Hope of Utah (formed 2024-10-04), which lists RatedBooks as affiliate

Anchor #e-0268 · record BBA-0268

Full record. RatedBooks' /dsd "CODE VIOLATIONS" page cites a Davis School District audit dated 2024-02-20, with column-G per-school violation locations; RatedBooks' own Davis SD page states the listed rated books were all found in Davis SD on this date

Anchor #e-0272 · record BBA-0272

Full record. A second Deseret News op-ed names RatedBooks.org and frames HB374/HB29 as enforcement of "the 2007 criminal standard," 13 days after the HB29 Senate Education hearing, before HB29 was signed

Anchor #e-0273 · record BBA-0273

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. Empowered Parents' unlinked page /indoctrinationproof.html is live: it defines indoctrination, then hyperlinks "trusted resources", "classes", "curriculum portal" and "2024 calendar" to storylabs.online product pages including /product-page/learning-platform-access. Archived 2024-02-26 through 2025-05-15; Brooke Stephens was Empowered Parents' President 2022-08-04 to 2024-11-25.

Anchor #e-0885 · record BBA-0885

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. The /trustedresources portal page and the 2024 "indoctrination-proof calendar" products (Utah and national editions) are on the storylabs.online storefront

Anchor #e-0768 · record BBA-0768

Full record. Publishers Weekly named RatedBooks -- the EARLIEST library-trade-press mention found in this corpus, predating Book Riot's January 2025 piece by 10 months

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Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "UPU Title IX Class" (CGOBbM0mRq8), 188 views as of 2026-08-18. 63-minute UPU class.

Anchor #e-0886 · record BBA-0886

Anchor #e-0292 · record BBA-0292

Full record. Hope of Utah forms (Ogden nonprofit, EIN 33-1592354, 501(c)(3) ruling Oct 2024); RatedBooks.org is affiliate #11 of ~19-20

Anchor #e-0299 · record BBA-0299

Full record. "Refusing Complicity in Israel's Literary Institutions" open letter published; later adopted wholesale by NBRI as the methodology behind its "State Anti-BDS Legislation" flag

Anchor #e-0300 · record BBA-0300

Full record. Empowered Parents filed Articles of Amendment; the operator and two others made active as directors, four prior officers listed inactive (including President/Director)

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Anchor #e-0321 · record BBA-0321

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Highlight Reel of Gender Harmony Clips" (RPWWLOhKbJ8), 55 views as of 2026-08-18. Description names GenderHarmony.institute, whose president testified for 1st Sub. H.B. 174 (2026). Establishes only that she made the reel - no role, payment or membership shown.

Anchor #e-0887 · record BBA-0887

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploads the unlisted "Highlight Reel of Gender Harmony Clips" (RPWWLOhKbJ8, 3:26, 55 views), description naming GenderHarmony.institute. Establishes only that she made the reel - no role, payment or membership shown, and GHI's own site embeds no video at all.

Anchor #e-0888 · record BBA-0888

Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Time to Speak Up" (tXME1M-u96M), 196 views as of 2026-08-18. The Water for Elephants challenge-recruitment video, sealed 2026-08-12 but never entered in this chronology until 2026-08-18.

Anchor #e-0889 · record BBA-0889

Full record. Same day as the shutdown notice, RatedBooks founder Brooke Stephens posted as Admin in the "LaVerna in the Library - Utah's Mary in the Library" Facebook group, attaching the notice graphic: "RatedBooks.org is grateful for all of the work and reviews freely given by booklooks.org. RatedBooks.org will continue to provide links to all of booklooks.org's reports and will continue aiding in organizing and providing book reviews."

Anchor #e-0333 · record BBA-0333

Full record. Empowered Parents filed an Annual Report confirming charitable-org 990-series filing status; attaches a 2023 Form 990-N

Anchor #e-0334 · record BBA-0334

Full record. BookLooks ceased operation, removing all reports: "after much prayer and reflection it has become apparent that His work for us here is complete"; the LLC was never dissolved; RatedBooks.org continues producing similar structured reports

Anchor #e-0337 · record BBA-0337

Full record. Minnesota Reformer, covering the ACLU-Minnesota/Education Minnesota suits against St. Francis Area Schools filed that day, reported: "BookLooks is shutting down, according to a message on its website, but a similar organization — ratedbooks.org out of Utah, is maintaining the BookLooks archive"; the earliest located press statement of the RatedBooks absorption, published one day after BookLooks ceased operation

Anchor #e-0338 · record BBA-0338

Full record. RatedBooks.org Utah Articles of Incorporation filed at 10:09 AM (Filing 250523374258B, Entity 14574510-0140); registered agent at a Layton UT address; Article V names a 5-person board including the Pavement Education Project incorporator, at the same Raleigh NC address as her Pavement filing, plus 4 other directors across 4 states

Anchor #e-0345 · record BBA-0345

Anchor #e-0348 · record BBA-0348

Capture-bound date. The latest moment this record can be shown to exist, not the moment it happened.

Full record. A "Rated Books Donation" product appears on the storylabs.online storefront - the newest ratings line item, ~5 weeks after the RatedBooks.org nonprofit was incorporated (2025-05-16) and ~2 months before IRS recognition (2025-08)

Anchor #e-0769 · record BBA-0769

Full record. IRS granted RatedBooks.org 501(c)(3) status, EIN 39-2728966, NTEE B90, filing Form 990-N (receipts normally <=$50,000); Pavement Education Project received its 501(c)(4) exemption ruling the SAME DATE

Anchor #e-0365 · record BBA-0365

Full record. Public reporting (KUTV/Signpost, citing Let Utah Read data) found 24 of 25 Davis SD book challenges in this window came from a single unidentified submitter, all linked to RatedBooks.org; Davis SD separately processed 25 challenges from only TWO unique submitters during its HB29 cycle, with Let Utah Read stating all of the year's challenge forms included ratedbooks.org links

Anchor #e-0367 · record BBA-0367

Full record. The book-rating operator advertises a paid 15-week parents' liberty course she teaches herself, priced $100 or free to members of a national mothers' organization; two of its three assigned titles are marked Recommended in her own rating product's district worksheets

Anchor #e-0865 · record BBA-0865

Full record. Brooke Stephens promotes "EXEMPLARS OF LIBERTY: Be the patriot you want your child to become", 15 classes 9/4-1/15, Thursdays 7-8 PM MT on Zoom, $100 or free to Moms for America members, registration Brooke@utahmomsforamerica.com, billed as "a trained Key of Liberty mentor". Assigned books: Red Scarf Girl, John Adams: Reluctant Patriot, The Washington Hypothesis.

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Full record. Brooke Stephens uploaded an UNLISTED YouTube video, "Charlie Kirk Was a Role Model for the Freedom to Speak, Live and Believe According to Conscience" (jnIR6OFriQo), 83 views as of 2026-08-18. 14-minute video, no description.

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Full record. RatedBooks.org published Version 2.0 (October 2025) of its "Comprehensive Content Based Rating Scale," credited to "Pavement Education Project with RatedBooks.org"

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Full record. RatedBooks announced "BookLens," a barcode-scanner tool aggregating reports from BookLooks, RatedBooks, and WeArethePeople2 into a single point-of-shelf lookup

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Full record. UTAH MOMS FOR AMERICA registers as a Utah domestic nonprofit corporation, Business ID 14619261-0140, status Active/Current, "Solicits Charitable Contribution: No." Principal Information, all last-updated the same day, lists four people: Incorporator TYLER N OLIVERSON (Spanish Fork), Treasurer MEGAN OLIVERSON (Spanish Fork), Officer BROOKE STEPHENS (Layton), Director CARI BARTHOLOMEW (Payson), who is also the registered agent and whose address is the entity's own

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Full record. Utah OLAG transmitted Report 2025-28, "A Review of School Library Books: Questionable Content Shows the Need for More Robust Oversight"; sample drawn from a 186-title ratedbooks.org list (itself based on the "now-defunct" booklooks.org rating system) supplied by "a concerned legislator," 7 districts reviewed, settling on a 22-book sample (20 found plus 2 added "based on legislative concern"); 21 of 22 (95%) contained statutorily-defined sexual conduct, 16 of 22 (73%) nudity; the Legislative Audit Subcommittee received the presentation and voted (one dissent) to refer "a review of school library books" to two committees

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Full record. The Salt Lake Tribune was the ONLY outlet to name ratedbooks.org and Utah Parents United as the source of the 2025-28 audit's book list, having asked the auditors directly; KSL, Deseret News, and a Yahoo wire ran the "concerned legislator" phrase without naming the site; the Tribune separately reported the audit found the law "may not go far enough"

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Full record. The operator's newsletter stated NBRI's members-only aggregated-links index was "coming end of 2025," pricing $5/month or $50 lifetime

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Full record. Book Riot's "Take Back the Classroom" piece stated "BookLooks reviews were folded into RatedBooks"; the same day, the USPTO canceled S&S Apps' California-LLC-era trademark registration

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Full record. The nationalbookratingindex.com domain created (GoDaddy, privacy-shielded), matching a report that NBRI began selling NarraTrue that month

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Full record. S&S Apps uploaded "Introduction to the National Book Rating Index" to YouTube, a silent screen-capture demo -- earliest of 7 known NBRI product videos

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Full record. York County (SC) Library Board voted 6-1 to approve a revised Collection Development Policy incorporating a requirement to consider "reviews by ratedbooks.org"; press coverage described the revision as removing "gender identity" and other LGBTQ themes from children's/teen collections, also naming SC DOE rulings and SC State Library guidance as consideration sources

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Full record. RatedBooks filed a 990-N postcard for CY2025 -- its first-ever IRS filing; Utah Parents United and Pavement Education Project each also filed a 990-N postcard for CY2025

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Full record. HB197 "School Materials Amendments" drafted/introduced; would have required digital-material vendors to filter "sensitive material" and created a private right of action; NEVER names RatedBooks/NBRI

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Full record. Brooke Stephens sends a mass email titled "Reasons your should support HB 197" to roughly 85 Republican Utah legislators at 10:23 AM. Writing "In my work with RatedBooks," she argues for the bill's requirement that USBE furnish LEAs a review list (lines 299-309), recounting that she asked Davis School District to link to her ratings and "They said they don't use resources from private citizens; they will only use something from the USBE"; that she then asked USBE board members to circulate "our monthly list" and only one reported doing so; and that on 2025-10-14 she asked the State Superintendent to share flagged materials with schools and was told "she needs the legislature to do that"

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Full record. The operator uploaded two YouTube videos stating "Utah statewide removal, which is 22," describing a members-only access tier, and taking a call from a parent at a California school

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Full record. NBRI product video "Understanding Propaganda and Protecting Children" (4:19) published to the S&S Apps YouTube channel; the operator demonstrates the live NBRI interface throughout

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Full record. On camera the operator states her page-number method: "I select a section and put it into Kindle or some other online thing and you can see it come up and find the chapter and exactly where it is. So that's how I find those page numbers."

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Full record. Same video, the operator states the standard: "This is the law. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It has nothing to do with race. It's all about being sexually explicit for minors."

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Full record. Same video: the operator concedes her own data lacks a denominator — "You don't know how many books they had in their district... So the number is not known by me" — while framing the absence of denominators as the defining feature of propaganda

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Full record. The HopeofUtah YouTube channel posted its first five videos, one a 121-second profile titled "Rated Books". Every one of the channel's 23 uploads is dated 2026, earliest 2026-02-05 and latest 2026-08-11; the channel is a portfolio of short profiles of separate organizations, among them Mustard Seed Ministries, Youth for Liberty, Empower Parents and WAMSAFETY.

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Full record. York County Library (SC)'s policy revised again, now stating books on "gender identity or other mature themes may be placed in the Teen-Collection," and naming "reviews by ratedbooks.org" as a consideration

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Full record. Brand video "We love reading!" (2:02, 2 views): the operator self-identifies as "founder of ratedbooks.org," cites Piaget's stages of cognitive development as rationale, and states the aggregation is weighted — "specifically family-friendly reviews. We put these reviews alongside secular organizations so parents can see the differences and decide who they trust." Named sources: The Good and the Beautiful, Rated Reads, Plugged In by Focus on the Family, Christian parent reviews. Claims "nearly 17,000 books." Closes: "Ratedbooks.org is a proud partner with Hope of [Utah]"

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Full record. The operator uploaded the "We Love Reading" NBRI video, stating "Ratedbooks.org is a proud partner with Hope of Utah," claiming nearly 17,000 indexed books, and describing the aggregate as weighted toward "family-friendly" Christian review sources alongside secular ones

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Full record. The operator, one of three parent volunteers, was given ~90 minutes of librarian-level access to Davis SD's Follett (Destiny) catalog at an elementary school to enter titles/authors/ISBNs

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Full record. Journalist Claire Woodcock filed a GRAMA request via MuckRock to Davis SD seeking communications about inputting RatedBooks ratings into Destiny; as of a 2026-03-08 snapshot the request stood at 1 communication / 0 files released, later resolved/split by the 2026-06-18 SLTrib reporting

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Full record. Davis SD's public Google Sheet "Books to Challenge in DSD" (81 titles) logs challenge-submission dates in this window, each keyed to a RatedBooks.org rating report -- a forward worklist, mostly distinct from already-banned titles. Specific submission-batch dates observed in the sheet: >=5 titles marked "submitted 3-13-26"; ~a dozen further titles marked "submitted 3/28/26"; another batch marked "submitted 5/2/2026."

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Full record. A Drive folder "NBRI excerpt scans" lists 5 book-excerpt-scan files with Last Modified dates in this window

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Full record. RatedBooks.org published Version 2.1 (April 2026) of its "0-5 Explicit Content Rating Scale," retitled "Explicit Content," credited to "Pavement Education Project with RatedBooks.org," adding a new gate barring instruction/discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation at Tier 1

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Full record. 404 Media (Woodcock) publishes article reporting on BLOCKADE, the end-to-end AI book-report generator, alongside RatedBooks as a separate example

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Full record. 404 Media (Woodcock) publishes an article documenting the operator's in-house use of commercial LLMs inside RatedBooks' human review loop -- described as AI-assisted, not AI-generated; the same article separately covers BLOCKADE (a Delaware-lane AI book-report generator) as a distinct example of the same trend, not one operation

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Full record. The operator uploaded two NBRI videos demonstrating removal-target selection against a LIVE Davis SD Destiny/Follett catalog export for a named high school, tracking HB29's 3-district threshold, describing a PAID list-running service for parents targeting districts; separately, The Signpost (Weber State) quoted her: "Now we have AI tools that can scan it as well."

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Full record. NBRI product video "School District Library Screening" (4:25, ZERO views at capture): the operator states "I've been running lists for a school district," instructs districts to export from Destiny Follett as Excel, and demonstrates triage — "we do have some books that are labeled LGBTQ. So you can find them here. And if you sort by CRT or if you sort by removed"

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Full record. Same video: the rating is described as a prioritisation tool for removal work — "the most important thing we give you is this NBRI rating right here. We sort by it so you can kind of prioritize what you want to look at first" — followed by a direct recommendation on a specific title: "So that's probably one you want to remove."

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Full record. NBRI product video "Running Lists for School Districts" (4:28, 4 views): same Destiny Follett export workflow, but addressed to PARENTS, not to the district — "I'm running some lists for some parents in a school district" — and the sortable columns are named, with the LGBTQ column's purpose stated: "The other columns that you can sort is, you know, LGBTQ. So parents can use this to opt their children out if they do or do not want those. At least they're marked CRT. This is a limited right now, removed... and is challenged"

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Full record. Both export-workflow videos — one addressed to a school district (ifJ6IsHIfUw), one to parents (v_EO1Mk3ntI) — open by requiring a Destiny Follett catalog export as the product's input — "Destiny Follett can export either as a spreadsheet or as a PDF... always ask for an Excel file" — and the operator names the export's own data defects: no ISBNs, inconsistent author-name formats, and duplicate records requiring manual merging

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Full record. Hope of Utah published a promotional compilation video in which the operator pitches RatedBooks/NBRI to the affiliate network, using softer "family-friendly reviews" language than her written affiliate blurb's "addictive stimulant, pornography" framing

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Full record. The storylabs.online UT HEART product page STILL opens with the words "USBE approved" - 3 years and 7 months after the Board voted to uphold the denial of that same curriculum

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Full record. KUTV reported Utah had removed 34 books statewide, 33 of them (roughly 97%) first removed in Davis SD; identified the operator as "civic education director for Utah Moms for America," creator of the NBRI; quoted her: "I haven't removed any books -- the committees have." Separately, Let Utah Read's administrative director told KUTV: 'It's just one person who says, "No, I don't want my kids to read it." Therefore, no kids get to read it.'

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Full record. A Senate leader's PAC donated $10,000 to Utah Parents United -- the ONLY Senate-leader-PAC-to-UPU donation in Utah's campaign finance record; POSTDATES the October 2025 audit by seven months and does NOT establish who supplied the audit's book list

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Full record. Empowered Parents' 2026 annual report gives its principal office and mailing address as 640 North Main Street Suite 226, North Salt Lake UT 84054 - the same suite the IRS Business Master File gives for Utah Parents United, whose in-care-of line reads Brooke Wentzel Stephens. The same report answers NO to the charitable-organization question, where the 2025 report answered YES and attached a 990-N

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Full record. Hope of Utah filed Form 990-EZ for FY2025: $140,400 revenue, $48,050 in grants to its affiliate network (RatedBooks is affiliate #11), with internal figures CONTRADICTING each other across three line items; NO recipient of the $48,050 is itemized

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Full record. In the "How to Use the NBRI" demo, the operator says she verified on this date that a PEN-reported "banned" book was present (3 copies) at a named high-school library

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