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Mohave County board rejects subset of donated library books after heated public comment
Summary
After hours of public testimony split between parental-control advocates and free‑speech supporters, the Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 to reject a list of donated titles and directed staff to remove the specified donated copies pending further review.
The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 on March 2 to reject a set of donated titles to the county library system after a contentious public-comment period that drew more than two dozen speakers.
The board took up an item to accept monetary and nonmonetary donations to the Mohave County Library District, including a staff list of titles the director had flagged for review. Library Director (speaker 15) told the board that staff follow a donation-review and cataloging process and described a reconsideration policy for titles challenged by patrons. "We do have children's-area policies about unattended adults ... and the total amount of adult…
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