Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resolution from the county’s all-Republican Quorum Court to remove LGBTQ+ books from the children’s section of the Saline County Library. The settlement was announced last Thurs…