Utah parents push back against 'pornographic' books in public schools by filing over 250 complaints
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Utah parents filed approximately 280 complaints under a state law requiring public schools to remove 'pornographic' material from libraries and classrooms.
The Republican-backed policy, which instructs school systems to remove books containing inappropriate content – written or illustrated – from libraries and classrooms, garnered criticism for alleged censorship and follows suit of a wave of conservative parental concerns over allegedly pornographic or mature-themed books found in public schools across America, but the state's Deputy Superintendent Angela Stallings says the incidents reported across districts in Utah are exclusive to junior high and high schools. Taylor Penley is a production assistant with Fox News.
"I read a lot in the press that we’re banning books, or we’re burning books," state Sen. John Johnson, R-Utah, who supported the policy, said, according to The Tribune.