Six people spoke to the Alabama Public Library Service board Thursday, asking it to either hire an assistant director to enforce a ban on transgender books in youth sections or strip funding from libraries that have not complied.

Three of the six speakers came from Prattville and have close ties to Clean Up Alabama, which has pushed to prohibit LGBTQ+ books in children’s and youth sections. The Autauga-Prattville Public Library already has policies banning LGBTQ+ books in sections for minors, although those policies remain the subject of a yearslong lawsuit