The Georgia Legislature is considering a new bill aimed at preventing children from accessing explicit materials in libraries, but opponents say it would chill free speech and open the state up to lawsuits.
Senate Bill 74, which passed out of committee Tuesday on a party line vote, would remove an exemption for librarians in the section of state code dealing with distributing sexually explicit materials to minors.
The bill’s sponsor, Sylvania Republican Sen. Max Burns, said the law should have always applied to librarians.
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