Following its passage of a controversial anti-abortion resolution last month, the Riverton City Council took on another social issue at its meeting on Tuesday with the unanimous passage of a statement promoting a “child-appropriate” standard across its boundaries.
The three-page resolution, which is ceremonial in nature and does not change city policy, expresses the council’s desire to “protect children” from sexually explicit or pornographic material and its concern “about the corrosion of childhood due to the proliferation of material placed in public view that has a degrading effect on children.”
“We all were in agreement that this is something we would like to adopt in our community and do what we can to protect those individuals, our youth,” Mayor Trent Staggs told The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday.