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Maricopa County to expand parental-choice library pilot, move some juvenile health materials to adult stacks
Summary
County manager presented expansion of a parental-choice pilot that lets parents block specific book titles, and staff said juvenile sexual-health books will be relocated out of children's sections; no formal vote was required.
Maricopa County officials on Tuesday said they will expand a parental-choice pilot launched in Queen Creek to all 14 county library branches and move certain juvenile sexual-health materials out of the children’s stacks to adult-only sections.
The update came during a presentation from County Manager Jen Bukorski, who told the Board of Supervisors that the Queen Creek pilot — launched May 1 — allows parents to identify specific book titles they “do not want their child to access” and for staff to block checkout of those titles in both physical and digital formats. Bukorski said the county will extend the pilot to every county branch and is relocating a category described in the presentation as juvenile sexual-health…
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