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Board Adopts 2026 Library District Schedule amid Calls to Remove Explicit Materials from Youth Sections and Restore Interactive Webinars
Summary
The Maricopa County Board voted to adopt the 2026 Library District meeting schedule while members of the public pressed the board for a hearing on sexually explicit material in youth sections and for restoration of interactive webinar participation.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt the 2026 meeting schedule for the Library District while members of the public urged the board to hold a public hearing on sexually explicit material that speakers said remained in juvenile sections and to restore interactive webinar participation for remote commenters.
Public commenters including Leslie Shepherd, Roger Maya and Kristen Veil told the board the county-funded libraries continued to shelve sexually explicit material in youth sections and that county-run meetings have prevented two-way webinar participation for more than a year. “The board is scheduling another year of silence on an urgent issue,” Roger Maya told the board,…
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