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Will Loudoun Trustees Deselect Internet Filters?The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors signaled its intention last week to replace four soon-to-be-vacant seats on the Loudoun County Library Board with members who favor rescinding the seven-month-old mandatory filtering policy the library is currently defending in a federal lawsuit. "My appointee is going to share my appreciation for the First Amendment," Supervisor James G. Burton told the Washington Post April 23 of his search to fill the vacancy created by the June 30 expiration of Library Board Chairman John Nicholas's term. Nicholas and two of the three other trustees about to leave the board, including newly elected state Assemblyman Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun), have been pro-filter. "It's very distressing," Black reacted. "It's a matter of how you view your role as a public official--if you believe that you can run roughshod over the express will of the people in your community." Posted April 27, 1998. |
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