Overview
- On December 8, county commissioners voted 3–2 to dismiss all nine library trustees and void the board’s bylaws.
- Trustees had voted 5–2 in October to retain Kyle Lukoff’s picture book Call Me Max in the children’s section after a policy review.
- The county public information officer said the book remains available for checkout across Randolph County libraries.
- Officials have not outlined when or how a new library board will be reconstituted.
- A public hearing drew nearly 200 residents, and free-expression advocates described the dissolution as an unusually harsh escalation over a single title.