Clean Up Alabama is encouraging the public to tell the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) Board to require libraries to automatically remove sexually explicit materials.

Hannah Rees, founder of Clean Up Alabama, said in an email to supporters on Monday that a 45-day comment period to the APLS board was now open.

"It's time to write in. The comment period at APLS has begun. Here we are again, folks. The APLS board has determined it is necessary to make some additions to the Alabama state code where publicly funded libraries are concerned," Rees said. "Back in 2024, they established that libraries could no longer purchase or acquire sexually explicit or inappropriate materials that were published/geared for minors 0-17 yrs old. While we had asked them to define inappropriate in th

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