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Eugene Volokh

Utah Law Forbids Public School Libraries From Having Any Books That "Describe" "Sexual Intercourse" Etc.

The Salt Lake Tribune (Courtney Tanner) reports that the Bible will be removed from Davis (Utah) School District elementary and middle school libraries, "for containing 'vulgarity or violence.'" A parent had asked, apparently as a protest against a recent Utah law that calls for removal of various school library books, that the Bible be removed; this seems to have been the response.

And the Utah law does seem to be remarkably broad, calling for removal from (among other things) school libraries of "sensitive material":

(2)(b) A public school may not: (i) adopt, use, distribute, provide a student access to, or maintain in the school setting, sensitive materials ….

{(1)(f)(i) "School setting" [includes], for a public school: … (B) in a school library ….}

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