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CLN: Trustees taking away First Amendment rights

| November 1, 2023 1:00 AM

They are coming for your books. This is not hyperbole, this is fact. And the “they” would be KCRCC rated and vetted CLN trustees — Ottosen, Hanley and Plass. Hanley and Plass ran on a platform of removing books they found offensive from the young adult sections of the library. They now appear to be turning their attention toward adult books.

One of the many changes they wish to make, to the Material Selections Policy, is the removal of the entire section entitled Intellectual Freedom. To be excluded would be such statements as follows:

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