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Public speakers urge Columbia County to reconsider library shelving guidelines; legal risks and community division cited
Summary
Multiple residents spoke during public comment at the May 20 Columbia County commissioners meeting urging the county to reconsider new library shelving guidelines that move some young-adult and LGBTQ-themed materials; speakers cited legal risk, First Amendment issues, and community harm; commissioners did not take formal action at the meeting.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the May 20 Columbia County Board of Commissioners meeting to press the county on recently adopted library shelving guidelines and to urge the board to reconsider or seek legal clarity.
Priscilla Bence (listed on the sign-in as Priscilla Bentz) told the board she appreciated some changes already made but asked that the county move adult literature downstairs and children/teen literature upstairs at the county library to reduce conflict over placement. “That would just solve 80% of the problem,” she said, and asked the county to prioritize clearer separation of age-appropriate collections to ease the library’s…
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