The board also voted to send 18 books to the district administration to determine what age restrictions, if any, should be placed on them.
The controversy in the state’s second largest school district arose amid a national conservative movement to ban books deemed offensive. At public hearings last spring, people complained about dozens of titles, saying they were pornographic. That prompted the district to pull 56 books from school library shelves.“The committee unanimously concluded one title meets the elements of criminal obscenity under Alaska law,” board member Kathy McCollum said.
Of the 18 other books forwarded to the administration for further review, the committee concluded just five of those “might be obscene.” “I also very much appreciate the transparency that none of this process was done in hiding and secret form,” she said. “The conversations are had, they are recorded, they are published.”
The removed book is a romance novel that describes domestic abuse. The board amended recommendations from the committee, but did not offer its own explanation for dropping the book.in a recent interview that book challenges in Alaska follow a nationwide pattern of censoring material depicting LGBTQ+ experiences, as well as books about Black and Indigenous characters.
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