Utah officials are finalizing a list of books for removal from school districts that parents have deemed inappropriate for their K-12 education system.
allowing school districts to remove books from academic libraries with pornographic or indecent materials. The law also applies retroactively to all books banned before July 1, when it will go into effect.
The new law requires at least three school districts, or two school districts and five charter schools, to agree that the book in question amounts to objective sensitive material before the sexually explicit materials are removed from school libraries statewide. As the final authority on the new policy, the Utah State Board of Education can override the districts’ decision.
Republican state Rep. Ken Ivory, the legislator who originally spearheaded the bill, said the books targeted for removal in schools could be safely categorized as obscene.“’But he clamped his hands over her mouth, and d**** h***** and h******,’” read one Utah mother, Gloria Vindas. She refused to finish the passage, saying, “I think you can see how it triggers a lot of trauma in this room.”
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