Sheriff Robert Norris is speaking into his body camera. “Today’s date is April 20, approximately 7 a.m. Just want to document my visit to the Hayden Library. My attorney and I are just curious and would like to document this visit to see what kind of materials are on display here.”

Norris, the sheriff of Kootenai County, Idaho, meets up outside the library with Marianna Cochran, the founder of CleanBooks4Kids, a “grassroots group of North Idaho citizens alarmed at the abundance of books sexualizing, grooming, and indoctrinating kids in our local libraries at taxpayer expense,” to search for the book Identical, which Norris says he had “seen an image [of] floating on social media.”

So it's a fishing expedition with some random right wing nutjob in tow, huh?
ACAB

My attorney and I are just curious and would like to document this visit to see what kind of materials are on display here.

Unbelievable

Your taxpayer dollars at work

This is the stupidest timeline

Damnit, Idaho, stop being so terrible. They just recently-ish reduced their illiteracy rate and already want to fuck it up again. So glad I don't live there anymore, I wish my hometown was just 20 miles to the left it could have been in Washington

Even in Idaho, I have to wonder how many kids are even reading paper books from the library in 2024, and how many of them are reading these books in particular -- and how many resources are wasted on this non-problem of a wedge issue they've invented...

Cop should retire and join the fire department since he obviously believes he is in Fahrenheit 451.

I realize it isn't the sheriff's own initiative to go hunting for "obscene" books but the people who pull his strings from the top. However I bet, 10 to 1, that most of these people banning books and so frightened by books about human behavior and sexuality probably have stashes of porn somewhere in their own houses or bedrooms.