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Mom Sues Library to Restrict Kids' Web AccessA Concord, California, mother of a 12-year-old filed suit May 28 against the Livermore Public Library to declare the library's Internet computers a public nuisance and force officials to either require parental permission for minors to use the workstations or to block sexually explicit materials from them. In the suit, Kathleen R. (whose identity is being shielded to protect her child) charges that her son, Brandon P., used the main library's computers on 10 occasions to download photos of women performing sexual acts. She alleges that Brandon then printed out the images at a relative's home and distributed them to other kids. "We don't want to be in the business of policing what children or anybody else can get in the library," LPL Director Susan Gallinger told the San Jose Mercury News May 29 of her system's unrestricted, age-neutral Internet policy. The library has a month to respond to the suit. Posted June 1, 1998. |
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