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Dear Ms. Taylor:

The Concordia Parish Library Board (the Board) is considering a new employment policy, prompted by the following incident, which we restate from your correspondence. Recently, library staff caught a male youth (age thirteen) printing pornographic material from the library's internet resources. The material printed at the library central desk, and library staff denied the youth the documents. He became angry at the refusal, and began to verbally abuse the staff, at which point library personnel called the police. Library staff gave statements to the police concerning the…