Libraries generally are among cities’ least-controversial services, yet Huntington Beach’s conservative City Council decided ...

The Huntington Beach City Council has set a special election for June 10 on two initiatives that could determine who controls the city’s public libraries. One would repeal a controversial ...

Huntington Beach leaders announced Tuesday their plans to fight a lawsuit filed last week that calls some of their recent controversial library policies unconstitutional and in violation of state law.

Huntington Beach is being sued by three of its own residents, along with an Orange County-based community group, over its controversial library policies. A lawsuit was filed in Orange County ...

The plaintiffs, which include two teenagers and Alianza Translatinx, an advocacy group for transgender people, allege the Huntington Beach Library System “directly violates the California ...

Huntington Beach’s Central Library is turning 50 this year, and city leaders will commemorate the occasion by installing a controversial plaque that includes a variation of the phrase “Make Am ...

The argument continues about whether Huntington Beach city leaders are censoring material that contains sexual content by removing it from the children's section of the library. "We are in a bit ...

Huntington Beach's Mayor Pat Burns addressed the ACLU ... its stance that no books have been banned or removed from the library," he said. "The safety, wellness, and protection of our community ...

Image Gracey Van Der Mark, a member of the Huntington Beach City Council, voted with six other colleagues to approve the design of the library plaque.Credit...Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York ...

Changes in library policies began when the Huntington Beach City Council approved Resolution 2023-41 in October 2023. The ...

Huntington Beach's libraries have been a point of controversy ... mounted a petition drive to get the board repealed. Public library advocates mounted a second petition drive after the City ...