MY TURN: Thank the Legislature for protecting minors
Tom Hanley
The Idaho State Legislature should be congratulated for attempting to protect minors from library material deemed harmful to children with the passage of the Children's School and Library Protection Act (Idaho Statute 18-1517B). So it is incumbent upon the Community Library Network (CLN) board of trustees (elected by the people) to formulate a policy to ensure compliance with the new law.
Idaho Statute 18-1513 through 18-1517B directs institutions such as CLN to restrict access by minors to material harmful to minors. It further obligates these institutions to take reasonable steps to create an area with adult access only. What should this area look like? How should minors checking out a book be controlled? This is not specified in the law. It is left up to the institutions to implement.
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