TWO STATES ARE LOOKING TO RESTRICT YOUTH ACCESS TO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL IN LIBRARIES.īUT DEPENDING ON HOW YOU CONSUME MEDIA - YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THIS. Activists say the Louisiana bill is targeting LGBTQ+ content. Librarians, legal experts and some parents have expressed concern the Texas bill’s language is vague and broad enough to include books that are not inappropriate. Neither of these bills have advanced without controversy. The bill would allow parents to bring books to a local board for review.Īccording to Straight Arrow News’ exclusive Media Miss tool, most of the sources covering this story lean left. Meanwhile in Louisiana, the state House was set to debate a bill that would create a card system to prevent children from checking out “sexually explicit material” from public libraries unless they have parental approval. “Our schools must not sexualize our students or provide them pornographic reading material or introduce them to inappropriate materials that distract from the educational goals we’ve set as a state,” Cindi Castilla, president of conservative think tank Texas Eagle Forum, said during a Senate education committee hearing earlier in May. Students who want to check out books with a “sexually relevant” rating would have to get parental permission first. Under the Texas bill, a book would get a “sexually relevant” rating if the material describes or portrays sexual activity but is part of the required school curriculum. A book would get a “sexually explicit” rating if the material describing or portraying sexual behavior is “patently offensive” and not part of required curriculum.īooks with a “sexually explicit” rating would be removed from library bookshelves. In Texas, the state Senate gave its initial approval to a House bill that would create a rating system for school libraries.Īccording to Straight Arrow News’ exclusive Media Miss tool, out of the dozens of sources covering this story, most are on the left and in the middle. Two states have advanced bills that would restrict youth access to sexually explicit materials in libraries.
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