The City of Huntington Beach is moving forward on June 22 with a proposal to require the city’s libraries to screen children’s books for obscenity and pornographic content.
The City Council voted 4–3 to approve the proposal, introduced by Councilwoman Gracey Van Der Mark, which directs the city manager and city attorney to develop several different screening methods and present them to the board in September.
Councilors Van Der Mark, Pat Burns, Casey McKeon, and Mayor Tony Strickland voted to approve the proposal, while Councilors Dan Kalmick, Natalie Moser, and Rhonda Bolton dissented.
Van Der Mark said she proposed the measure because parents had brought to her attention books with obscene and age-inappropriate content in teen sections of the city’s libraries….