MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WIAT ) — Changes are coming to children’s books sections across Alabama as public library officials remove certain reading materials from shelves.
The Alabama Public Library Service requires books containing “obscene content” to be removed from aisles geared for young readers. Under new code changes adopted last year , public libraries that do not cooperate with the removals risk losing state funding.
“It told us that we weren’t trusted,” Craig Scott, president of the Alabama Library Association, said…