The Alabama Public Library board reduced state funding on Thursday to the Fairhope Public Library after being notified about books in the teen section that were considered inappropriate .
The book referenced was “Sold”, a National Book Award finalist, which tells the story of a girl trafficked into sexual slavery in India.
A new Alabama law and a 2024 administrative code change mandate that libraries adopt policies to shield youth from “sexually explicit or other materials deemed inappropriate for children or youth” to maintain state funding. The action against the Fairhope Public Library is the first enforcement under this new law…