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Patron Calls the Cops over Onscreen PornPolice in Chandler, Arizona, have suspended their investigation of a complaint filed by an irate father whose wife and four children stumbled upon an image of a couple having sex left on an unoccupied children's Internet workstation at Chandler Public Library—despite the library's use of a CyberPatrol filter. After Kathleen Prost hastily removed the image, she alerted sympathetic staffers, who confided they had little control over such incidents. So her husband Jim Prost went to the police, claiming that the library was taking a "ho-hum" attitude. "If they can't stop it, they ought to unplug the damn things," Prost told the Arizona Republic July 23. Interestingly, the police "never really followed up with us," Director Karen Drake told American Libraries. If they had, they would have learned that the library's casual Internet sign-up system wouldn't have confirmed the identities of any suspects, anyway. Posted August 17, 1998. |
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