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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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