Colorado Newsline: Colorado school districts will need to adopt policies by this fall about when and why library books can be taken from the shelves under a new law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday.

The goal is to safeguard public school libraries from the growing trend that targets certain books, often about diverse topics or by diverse authors, for removal.

“Books are so important because names, experiences, identities — these things are being erased. To be able to experience how others are feeling, to learn empathy, to be able to see yourself in books if there’s no one else in your world like you — these things are so critical to developing an empathetic society,” bill sponsor Sen. Lisa Cutter, a Littleton Democrat, said ahead of the signing.

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