California School District Approves New Screening Process for Sexually Explicit Books
Published on December 8, 2023
The Chino Valley School Board in San Bernardino County, California recently approved a revision to its classroom materials policy that allows parents, teachers, students and community members to submit complaints to the board for classroom or library books they are concerned contain inappropriate sexual content. The update, passed with a 3–2 vote by the board’s conservative majority Nov. 16, will require the principal of the school to remove the book and inform the superintendent within three days of receiving a complaint. The superintendent must then notify the board, which would then hold a public hearing within 45 days to determine whether the book should be permanently removed from the district’s classroom and libraries....