Three Florida parents have filed a federal lawsuit that challenges a state review process allowing school parents to appeal local school board decisions that decline to ban books and other instructional materials.

The parents, who are from St. John’s and Orange counties, filed the lawsuit on June 6 in the Northern District of Florida. The legal complaint names the state Board of Education, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. and others as defendants and challenges a provision of House Bill 1069, which was enacted last year.

“The state’s chancellor of K-12 education has declared that parents must be in the ‘drivers’ seat’ to ensure that concerns about their children’s education are addressed,” the lawsuit states. “Yet when those concerns relate to the availability of books and other material in public schools, Florida’s leaders only welcome input from those parents advocating for removing books from schools.”