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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California ( KCAL, KCBS ) -- A youth-restricted area containing books Huntington Beach city leaders deemed too obscene for children remains at its Central Library despite a judicial order to eliminate the section.

In 2023, the City Council ordered librarians to move materials with "sexual content" from the children's section to the youth-restricted area on the fourth floor of the library. The action met stiff resistance, leading the American Civil Liberties Union to join a lawsuit filed by residents, including former librarian Erin Spivey, who left her job following the order.

"The instructions we expect the city to follow are returning the books to the children's section, taking down the signs about restricted books, establishing

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