Fri May 12, 2023 – 2:39 pm EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a law earlier this month that allows for parents and community members to challenge books that they find “obscene” or “harmful to minors” in school libraries.
According to provisions of H.B. 1447, public schools and charter schools in the state would have to create a database detailing all their inventory on their websites and create a procedure that would allow for parents and community members to submit a request to remove a book. The local school board would then have to review the request and discuss it at the next public school board meeting and establish an appeals process if it disagrees with the request.
Holcomb signed the bill on May 4.
The bill specifically allows for parents and community members to challenge books that are “harmful to minors,” which the Indiana State Code defines as anything representing nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sado-masochistic abuse, that appeals to the “prurient interest in sex of minors,” is considered “offensive to adult standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable matter for or performance
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