Internet Porn Statistics at Dallas Central Library Prompt City Concern
7.5% of Internet traffic is pornographyStatistics seem higher than in previous analysesCity Council to examine issue next month
A local newspaper's analysis of web pages accessed at the Dallas Public Library's central library showed that some 7.5 percent ...
Board Member’s YA Labeling Effort Fails
An effort by a trustee of the Guilderland Public Library, NY, to have sexually-explicit YA books labeled with “PG” stickers failed 7-1, after the proposal drew scorn from the community. Initially, John Daly would have had staff screen every on...
FL Commissioners Segregate Books
Last year, after receiving complaints about a sexually explicit novel, Marion County, FL, commissioners voted 3–2 to maintain the Marion County Public Library Advisory Board (see News, LJ 6/15/04, p. 20ff.). This year, however, they have dissolved t...
Court: COPA Injunction Stands
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 upheld a lower court's injunction blocking the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which would fine commercial web site operators if they did not require an age verification (such as a credit card) to look at sites deemed...
Vancouver PL Cancels Program By Assisted Suicide Organization
Director's decision; advised by counsel, policeCivil Liberties Assoc. to plead case at board meetingVPL was only public venue on tourThe Vancouver Public Library (VPL), BC, has cancelled a workshop organized by Exit International, an Australian-based assi...
Terror Suspect's Lawyer Says FBI Tracked Library Use Without Warrant
A library angle has emerged in the case of a terrorism suspect indicted in July 2006 (along with a confederate) on charges of going through paramilitary training in Georgia and plotting to attack various targets in the region and elsewhere. The lawyer for...
ALA Hails Judge's Decision on National Security Letter Gag Order
The American Library Association (ALA) applauded a decision by a federal judge in New York, who ruled that the gag order associated with National Security Letters (NSLs)-even though it was relaxed somewhat upon the revision last year of the USA PATRIOT Ac...
Part of SD Library Site Disabled
After protests about some links in the teen section of the South Dakota State Library's site (www.sdstatelibrary.com/teencenter) Gov. Mike Rounds decided July 12 to disable access to the whole section of the site, pending a review—which, he later ag...
Monroe Cty. Adopts Tough Net Policy
In response to a threat from Monroe County executive Maggie Brooks, the Monroe County Library System board, NY, last month agreed to make its Internet filter policy more restrictive, setting up a potential legal challenge. Brooks had threatened to deny $6...
Legislative Tunnel Vision
The hot-button issue of immigration has driven legislators and citizens in Denver to criticize harshly the library's provision of services and books in Spanish. Now Rep. David Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs) wants to take the crusade statewide, proposing ...