Officials scheduled a special meeting on Thursday during which they will discuss shutting down the three library branches. Their notice said that pending further guidance from the courts, “This action item will include discussion and action regarding the continued employment and/or status of the Llano County Library System employees and the feasibility of the use of the library premises by the public.”
The banned books, which include themes of LGBTQ+ identity and race, were removed last year without public input after Llano County officials declared them pornographic and sexually explicit.
The 17 books include:
Federal Judge Robert Pitman ordered the 17 books to be returned to the shelves on March 30 because officials had targeted them for the ideas they contain. Supreme Court precedent bars book removal based on viewpoint discrimination.
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The banned books, which include themes of LGBTQ+ identity and race, were removed last year without public input after Llano County officials declared them pornographic and sexually explicit.
The 17 books include:
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
- Spinning by Tillie Walden
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robbie H. Harris
- My Butt is So Noisy! I Broke My Butt! and I Need a New Butt! by Dawn McMillan
- Larry the Farting Leprechaun, Gary the Goose and His Gas on the Loose, Freddie the Farting Snowman and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts by Jane Bexley
- Shine by Lauren Myracle
- Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
- Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Federal Judge Robert Pitman ordered the 17 books to be returned to the shelves on March 30 because officials had targeted them for the ideas they contain. Supreme Court precedent bars book removal based on viewpoint discrimination.
Texas county weighs shutting down libraries to circumvent judge's order overturning book ban
Llano County commissioners considered whether they should shut down its library system entirely instead of complying with a federal judge's ruling that they must return 17 banned books to the library system.