Alachua County Public Schools is making changes to its policies and procedures on book challenges.
It comes after three residents challenged 12 books last fall — the highest number of challenges Alachua County ever received.
Under the new guidelines, book challenges will go directly to school principals instead of a school-level library advisory council. To save principals from having too much involvement and personal responsibility for making a decision, the principal will immediately forward the challenges to a district-level library advisory council. That council will meet twice a month to hear objections.
From there, the council will make recommendations on whether to remove a book. If they think a book should be removed, it'll go to the school board where members of the public can weigh in.
