A new St. Charles City-County library policy requires anyone under 18 to have a parent or guardian present to sign up for a library card. The library’s board approved the policy following new rules from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft. It creates a certification process for state-funded public libraries to adopt policies for age-appropriate reading materials.
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The libraries now require 16- and 17-year-olds to have a parent or guardian present when they sign up for a card. They re also worried what the new state rules will
Editorial: A requirement that 17-year-olds have a parent present when they sign up for library cards is lunacy. And it should spotlight the broader lunacy of Ashcroft’s campaign against libraries.
More than 350 people crowded into a St. Charles library board meeting Tuesday night in the latest escalation in a fight over a library employee that one patron says was