This retired Huntington Beach librarian says any talk of safeguarding kids is really just a pretext for banning books

Huntington Beach resident and retired librarian Barbara Richardson questions the city council’s proposal to restrict books in the name child protection. She fears this move may follow a national trend of removing books from library shelves.

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