League City Council, amidst opposition, creates committee to review library book challenges
Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. The League City Council voted Tuesday to create a committee charged with reviewing communi...
Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. The League City Council voted Tuesday to create a committee charged with reviewing community complaints about the appropriateness of books and other materials at the city's public library, despite hearing opposition from a large contingent of residents who spoke at the meeting. With a 5-3 vote that followed a nearly two-hour public comment period as well as an hour-long discussion amongst themselves, council members decided to create a "Community Standards Review Committee" that will field library materials challenges and determine whether books and other items are obscene and should be moved from children's sections to the adult section at the Helen Hall Library.