Redding, California - Library board tightens Internet access
From Redding.com. By Record Searchlight Staff. 06/19/07
The Redding, California library will gird its Internet access policy against stealth porn surfers.
The City Council, acting as the Municipal Library Board, voted 3-2 on Monday to explicitly limit unfiltered Internet access to legitimate research purposes. The policy also spells out Internet content the library will label offensive or harmful to minors.
The board rejected a Shasta County Library policy allowing unfiltered Internet access to any patron older than 18 who requested it. Customers could have clandestinely surfed porn sites under that policy, council members Ken Murray and Rick Bosetti said.
The Shasta Public Library Committee had urged the board to keep the old policy, noting the more restrictive rules would force librarians to devote time to monitoring Internet use -- time that could be used to help patrons.
Councilman Patrick Jones also favored the more restrictive policy.
Mayor Dick Dickerson and Vice Mayor Mary Stegall voted against it.
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