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    Editorial: California community will let neighbors censor neighbors’ reading choices. That’s wrong

    by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2023 3 minutes
    Opponents of the city’ s plan to screen new books hold signs during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting on Oct. 17, 2023.

    From now on a panel of 21 appointed residents will screen all new books for sexual content headed for the children’s and teen’s sections of the Huntington Beach Public Library, as well as reviewing the ones already on the shelves. Proponents of this new regimen, including Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark, who first proposed the panel, proclaim vehemently that this is not a book ban.

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