Safe Schools, Safe Libraries Project

Judge rules school must allow access to sexually explicit LGBT sites

woiplibrary — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:37:41 +0000

By Jack Minor March 14, 2012 Read full article here: http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=13708 A federal judge has ordered a Missouri school district to unblock its web filters and give students access to sexually explicit material by the middle of March. A US District Judge issued a preliminary junction against the Camdenton R – III School District banning them [...]

Ernest Istook: Libraries need not expose kids to porn

woiplibrary — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:15:04 +0000

By ERNEST ISTOOK / The Heritage Foundation Originally posted here: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/libraries-342133-children-public.html Librarians can be strict. In Seattle, for example, you can’t eat, sleep, go barefoot or be noisy in a public library. You can, however, “watch graphic porn on a public computer in front of kids,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently reported. You don’t need to be a [...]

Libraries vs. police in a suit sparked by porn – Kent, WA

woiplibrary — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:37:09 +0000

By JEFFREY M. BARKER, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER August 12. 2002 KENT — Someone in the library, huddled close to a computer screen, was viewing images of child pornography. There was a witness. A librarian was notified. Printouts of some of the images were left behind. Police were called, and a detective seized two computers. But now Kent police [...]

TELL SEATTLE LIBRARY “STOP THE PORN! PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AND RIGHTS!”

woiplibrary — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:12:51 +0000

Seattle’s Lake City library has been fighting a particularly contentious fight lately, upholding patrons’ right to watch pornography on library computers It started when a patron, Julie Howe, asked a librarian to do something about a man watching hardcore, obscene pornography (which might actually have been ILLEGAL) right next to her and her daughter. The [...]

LIBRARIAN SUIT: COMPUTER PORN USE LEAD TO GROPING WHILE CHILDREN PRESENT – Birmingham, AL

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:55 +0000

A Birmingham, Alabama librarian has filed a federal lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment because, according to her, the public library where she is employed is filled with men surfing the internet for porn who sometimes grope her and perform lewd acts in front of children. According to ABC News, 10-year Birmingham Public Library veteran Barbara [...]

Internet Porn Statistics at Dallas Central Library Prompt City Concern

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:07 +0000

7.5% of Internet traffic is pornography Statistics seem higher than in previous analyses City Council to examine issue next month A local newspaper’s analysis of web pages accessed at the Dallas Public Library’s central library showed that some 7.5 percent of the web pages viewed during one 45-minute period contained pornography, prompting concern from city [...]

Homeless Men Caught Watching Porn at Laguna Beach, CA Library, Patrons Say

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:18:34 +0000

LAGUNA BEACH (KTLA) — Laguna Beach Public Library patrons say there’s a big problem with homeless people watching porn on library computers. Police found eight homeless men gathered around a computer inside the library Saturday afternoon watching pornography. One was arrested for allegedly fondling himself. Joseph Clarence Cormier II, 46, was put under citizen’s arrest [...]

Fan of Library Porn Admits Raping Little Girl in Library Bathroom – Philadelphia, PA

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:54:54 +0000

The next time the taxpayer-supported members of the American Library Association rail against anti-porn filters on taxpayer-supplied Internet service, consider the little Philadelphia girl who went to her library to learn and instead got a vicious lesson from a pedophile rapist who loves library porn. Brian McCutcheon, a 23-year-old vagrant, is charged with rape and attempted murder [...]

D.C. Public Library: Please Don’t Watch Porn On Our Computers

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:46:39 +0000

On public computers inside Brooklyn’s public libraries, you are welcome to watch pornography. No, really. The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blogconfirmed it after learning about a fight that broke out between a guy who was watching porn and another guy who wanted to use the same computer. According to the friendly library spokesperson we talked to, not [...]

ACLU Bullying Schools Into Allowing Porn Access on Computers?

woiplibrary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:16:16 +0000

At different locales around the country, in places as diverse as Detroit, Mich., Lawrenceville, Ga., and Camdenton, Mo., the ACLU is sending letters and filing lawsuits seeking to disallow government school usage of certain Internet filters. They claim their campaign is designed to end the blocking of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” activist group sites, [...]