Maryland State Senator Justin Ready comment about age appropriate books in schools on September 12th

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This is from the Instagram account from Maryland State Senator Justin Ready (District 5 – Carroll County) on September 12, 2023:

Apparently it needs to be said…Sensible safeguards in schools are not “book bans”. Parents are simply pointing out explicit or mature content that is not appropriate children in school library. It doesn’t make a book illegal or ban it in public libraries.

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The monthly Board of Education meeting in Carroll County is happening today (September 13th) and will likely have a decent number of public participants talking on the issue of age appropriate books / book bans.

Here is a good article from WBAL on this topic:

And additional information from The Observer: