Clair McFarland reports:
The No. 1 priority for the Wyoming Legislature’s interim Judiciary Committee is to consider tying sex books in libraries to state obscenity laws. The debate continues years of controversy over sexually graphic books available to kids in libraries.\
For the majority of Wyoming’s legislative Judiciary Committee [as a noun], revising the state’s obscenity laws was such a high priority for this year’s bill-drafting season, the committee’s co-chair couldn’t remember which priority placed second after it.
The Joint Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up the obscenity topic for the months-long “interim” period between winter lawmaking sessions, starting May 20 at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington.
That’s after the majority of members pegged it as their No. 1 priority among more than 20 potential topics, Committee Co-Chair Art Washut, R-Casper, told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday.
The move follows years of controversy in multiple counties, over sexually graphic books being made available to kids in both school and public library systems.
“(It) still has a lot of interest and concern,” said Washut. “This one, by far and away, had the most legislators — most members of the committee — interested in discussing it.”
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