People of Color, Especially Children, Most Likely to be Asked to Leave Seattle Libraries

African Americans, especially children, are far more likely to be kicked out of Seattle libraries than patrons of other races, according to data the South Seattle Emerald obtained from the Seattle Public Library (SPL) through a public disclosure request.

Between January and July 2018, more than a third of patrons who received “exclusions” (notices, which can be verbal, that a patron cannot return to the library for a period ranging from a partial day to two years) were African American. Of 764 exclusions that included information about a patron’s race (61 did not include this information and have been excluded from this analysis), 33.4 percent (or just over one third) were African American; 7.5 percent were Hispanic or Latino; 55.5 percent were white; and the rest were another race.

From People of Color, Especially Children, Most Likely to be Asked to Leave Seattle Libraries | South Seattle Emerald

August 23, 2018 by Blake Uncategorized 0

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