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Prattville Mayor Proposes $355,000 for Library Amidst Controversy Surrounding Pornographic Material for Minors
Prattville Mayor Proposes $355,000 for Library Amidst Controversy Surrounding Pornographic Material for Minors
Prattville Mayor Proposes $355,000 for Library Amidst Controversy Surrounding Pornographic Material for Minors
Prattville, AL – On Wednesday August 16th, Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023-2024. If approved, Gillespie’s budget would provide $355,000 in taxpayer dollars to the Autauga-Prattville Public Library which has been the center of public controversy for the better part of 2023.
“The library continues to violate state law and basic human decency by providing children access to pornographic and obscene materials,” said Hannah Rees, executive director of Clean Up Alabama. “Any city councilor who votes for the mayor’s proposed budget before the library issues are addressed simply enables the library to continue sexualizing the children of our community.”
Prattville isn’t the only community experiencing these issues with their library. Unelected bureaucrats in libraries across Alabama are making the conscious decision to provide children with access to books ranging from radical gender ideology to outright explicit sexual content and the elected officials are just allowing it to happen.
Elected officials have numerous options to put a stop to the overreach of the public libraries. From adopting ordinances prohibiting anyone from allowing minors access to pornography to pursuing civil action to abate a nuisance per state law, local officials not only have the ability to do something but they have a duty to protect the children in their communities.
Rees continued, “If a politician fails to stop a public library from grooming children then votes to give that library taxpayer dollars, he or she is complicit and will be held accountable by the people of this state.”
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Clean Up Alabama is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that exists to safeguard the well-being and innocence of children by advocating for a safe and enriching environment in the children’s sections of our public libraries.
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