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Alabama legislature advances bill that restricts books ‘harmful to minors’ in public libraries

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If HB 285 is passed into law, public librarians could be guilty of misdemeanors for violating the state’s criminal obscenity provisions. This means that state governments are free to pass laws that limit obscene speech. In the US Supreme Court case Miller v. Earlier this month, t he Idaho Senate approved House Bill No.