Regarding the recent settlement in Minneapolis, Family.org has this to say in a recent article:
“I would think (the Minneapolis settlement) would make libraries more cautious about when to disable the filtering,” Burt said.
Phil Burress, head of Citizens for Community Values – a Cincinnati group which operates the national Family Friendly Libraries program – agreed the settlement should give pause to all libraries.
“How do you know that it’s not a pedophile that’s coming in and saying, ‘I just want to do some research, will you turn the filters off?’ ” Burress asked.
He said if turning off filters should ever lead to harm to a child or a worker being exposed to offensive material, another lawsuit is bound to follow.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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