This could get ugly.

And by "could", I mean "is going to":

Knox bans registered sex offenders from county libraries.

Interestingly, as a commentor at that site said, it's been tried before.

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[Angela H.]

Just caught up with my feed reader and saw this post...which is about the county where I live. I was actually in the basement of the main branch on the day this news was released, working in the Friends of the Library used book sale room. Those of down there had an interesting discussion about our feelings on the issue, and we were all in agreement, which I didn't expect.

(And yes, I am being coy and not stating our joint opinion in an attempt to be non-inflammatory one way or another.)