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An Iowa Senate proposal to bring criminal charges against school librarians and teachers who disseminate books the bill’s authors consider to be obscene is among the social issues in schools that legislators are expected to address this session.
Senate President Jake Chapman, a Republican from Adel, and Sen. Brad Zaun, a Republican from Urbandale who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee, have said they support bringing the charges where they feel a violation has occurred. Chapman has said he intends to propose legislation that would create a new felony offense for dissemination of obscene material to a minor.
Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, a Republican from Ankeny, said he expects a very broad conversation about K-12 education, including the issues Chapman and Zaun will bring to the front, when the Iowa Legislature begins is 2022 session this week.
Whitver said he did not know what the end result would be.
“I haven't seen any legislation that they may be working on or what that would look like, but over the last two years there has been an increased emphasis on education and parental choice and parental rights within education in the state of Iowa,” Whitver said.
Some of the passages and images in school library books are disturbing, Whitver asserted, and parents have raised issues.
In Urbandale, for instance, a parent complained about five books that have been the topics of debate in districts nationwide,...
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