Crested Butte News: The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday issued an order denying the petition for Writ of Certiorari of the Reaman v Brookhart lawsuit coming out of the state court of appeals. The years-long court process was centered on whether those trying to ban library materials should be considered “users” of the library under state statute and thus be afforded anonymity. 

Colorado legislators addressed the issue in their last session and settled the matter legislatively by approving Senate Bill 24-216, which was signed by the governor in June. The new law prohibits people from anonymously making a so-called “Request for Reconsideration” at the library. It makes clear that, “the individual making the request must reside in the legal service area for the library in which the request is made.” The law also states that a “written Request for Reconsideration of a library resource is not a library user record as described in section 24-90-119 (1). A written Request for Reconsideration of a library resource is an open record under the ‘Colorado Open Records Act’…” 

In other words, an anonymous person from, say Alabama or California, cannot try to ban a book at the Gunnison County Library, and anyone trying to do so, no matter where they live, must do it publicly.

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