During a recent Midland County Commissioner's meeting, officials spent half an hour on whether to follow a new policy set by Texas House Bill 900, which proposes the restriction of obscene content from the children's section at the library, a Newswest9 report stated.
A 2-2-1 vote determined that Midland County libraries will be required to abide by the new policy.
"It defines obscene and sets forth some definitions of different words that we are using to not remove books, but to move books to a different part of the library," Midland County Judge Terry Johnson said.
Books with obscene or sexual material will now be moved to a different library section.
“The court will now look to fill the short-handed Library Advisory Board, which has been short a few members, to help decide which books should be moved to a different section,” NewsWest9 reported.
The decision to move forth with the policy was suggested by Commissioner Dianne Anderson and seconded by Johnson. Commissioners Luis Sanchez and Jeff Somers did not participate in the voting.
"I hope in our next court, we pick some names to fill out that advisory board, that was one of the agenda items that we had. We're short about five people," Johnson said. "So before we go any further about policy and procedure, I hope that we can get the board filled and let the board set forth what the court wants and the courts have been elected to put in place what the community wants."