A Texas county's library system is being threatened amid an ongoing battle over banned books.
The county commissioners voted to remove the library’s possible closure from the agenda and said that the libraries will remain open during the course of the lawsuit, ABC affiliateThe debate seemingly began in July 2021, when a community group began pushing for the removal of children's books that they deemed "inappropriate," according to court documents.
The Commissioners Court also voted to suspend access to the library's online resources and dissolve the existing library advisory board, according to court documents. "Book banning offends basic First Amendment principles and strikes at the core of our democracy," read the lawsuit. The vast majority of book banning attempts were made against literature written by or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people of color, according to the ALA.
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