Measure to ban 'explicit' books from libraries falters as clock runs out in Wyoming Senate

Measure to ban 'explicit' books from libraries falters as clock runs out in Wyoming Senate

A bill that backers saw as a common-sense way to keep “sexually explicit” books out of kids’ hands died Tuesday in the Senate. Critics saw it as a book ban. Many librarians opposed the bill. “It is pure and simple censorship,” Teton County Library Director Kip Roberson said in an interview. “It removes materials from the hands of the intended audiences.” The bill in question, House Bill 10, “Sexually explicit materials in libraries-requirements,…