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Banned Books Week, which wraps up Saturday, has long been a time to celebrate the freedom to read and the value of open access to ideas. This year, in Wyoming, that freedom is under direct threat.

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The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee, bolstered by the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Monday to consider a bill that would ban “sexually explicit materials” from school libraries and from areas in public libraries accessible to individuals under 18.

Libraries would be fined $50,000 per violation. The bill would allow anyone to sue a library if they believe the policy has been violated. At the October meeting, t

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