The Denver Post: Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law a bill designed to protect Colorado libraries and their employees from partisan book-banning battles

On Friday, the governor signed SB24-216, a new law that requires the state’s public libraries to establish written policies for acquiring, retaining, displaying and using library resources — and governing how to handle any requests to remove books or other resources.

Public libraries must follow standards specified in the bill, including that they can’t exclude books and other resources because of the ethnic background or gender identity of anyone associated with the material. Libraries that don’t have established policies, or policies that don’t comply with the new law, “may not remove a library resource from its permanent collection,” the bill states.

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