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Resident Asks That Books With Sexual Content Be Moved From Township Library Shelves

March 28, 2024 General News, Library Board

OBJECTING TO OBJECTIONABLE BOOKS – Township resident Michele Petersen, in the box with a green border, speaks to the Library Board of Trustees about taking some books off of the library’s shelves and placing them with librarians.

A township woman has asked the Franklin Township Library to move some books with sexual content from library shelves to behind the librarians’ desks as a way to keep them out of the hands of children.

Michele Petersen has submitted two requests for books to be moved. The first, for the book “Gender Queer,” was denied by January Adams, the library’s executive director.

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