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Loudoun County Ruling Doesn't Faze Pro-Filterers in Plano"That ruling has nothing to do with us," Plano, Texas, city council member Rick Neudorff said of the November 23 summary judgment by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema that Loudoun County (Va.) Library could not filter all its public-access workstations all the time. That same day, Neudorff and fellow council members accepted a Plano Public Library report that concludes Bess blocking software "does not appear to degrade the city's network or Internet link in any way," the Dallas Morning News reported November 24. Council members also heard Mayor Pro Tem Jeran Akers's suggestion that librarians remove privacy screens so they would see when patrons visit sexually explicit sites and alert city prosecutors, an arrangement he defended as excising pornography "with a scalpel, not a sledge hammer." On November 9, the city council overrode the trustees' refusal to filter despite a patron's complaint about two young boys viewing "girlie pictures" online. The council is expected to impose a revised Internet policy on the library in the next few weeks. Posted November 30, 1998. |
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