Your Anti-Library
City Council

• Councilperson Gracey Van der Mark launches her "Porn in the library" campaign and proposes a restricted library card for teens

• Council creates 21-person board to review all new library book proposals (est. 10,000/year)

• Council explores privatizing Library to a for-profit company

• Council imposes "sexual content" rule based on Wikipedia
• Council removes books from children's library based on "bathing suit" rule
• Council banishes numerous children's books to 4th floor adult section
• Library's popular Teen Central dismantled

• Citizen A+B petition launched to protect libraries from privatization and censorship
• Council falsely accuses petitioners of misleading voters
• City contacts petitioners with threatening city email

• Council proposes moving Surf Museum into Main St. Library

• Library Measures A+B qualify for ballot with 19,800 and 17,773 signatures

• Council proposes MAGA plaque for Central Library
• Censorship lawsuit filed by HB citizens/ACLU against city

• Council moves A+B election to more expensive off-season date
• Council unanimously opposes library protections in A+B
• Protect Our Children PAC supported by council allies (PAC raised $28,000)
• Tenth librarian/library staffer quits

• Council members hand out alleged porn at Protect Our Children booth, Kiwanis Easter Event

• Calvary Chapel of the Harbour sponsors book banning events
• City pulls best-selling novel, The Guncle, from the library book club

• HB librarian fired without cause — second firing in one year
• The city's censorship policies are thwarted as HB voters in a 60% margin vote against the book review board and privatization

• Plaintiffs/ACLU win the censorship lawsuit. Council appeals. Legal fees approach $1 million

• After losing final court decision, Council votes 7–0 to press ahead to costly appeal