Library Alliance of North Idaho plans to discuss proposed restriction of adult content for minors [Video]

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The Library Alliance of North Idaho is challenging a bill preventing minors from accessing books with adult content.

Trustee Plass created a draft that would relocate books containing content deemed harmful to minors.

Plass listed qualities of a book that would make it adult content according to Idaho Statute 18-1514, including nudity of a man or woman, sexual conduct or arousal, or any act that is considered to promote sexual pleasure. This law would not discriminate against different sexualities, and people under the age of 18 would not be allowed to check out books containing sexual content with descriptions of masturbation or intercourse between two people.

The Library Alliance of North Idaho said the suggestion to relocate adult books and install video surveillance infringes on privacy rights outlined by the Community Library Network’s Member Confidentiality Policy, where library users have a right to privacy and confidentiality on what they …