The Dayton library – which was on the verge of becoming the first library in the country to shutter over disputes about what books it offers – will remain open after a Columbia County court Wednesday barred an initiative to close the library from appearing on the November ballot.
A local political action committee last month sued Columbia County and the leader of the movement trying to shut down the library, arguing the planned vote on the library’s future would exceed the county’s initiative powers, unconstitutionally disenfranchise county residents who pay taxes but wouldn’t get to vote and that the petition process was “plagued by fraud.”
