Loudoun County Plaintiffs Ask Judge to
Unplug Library Filters Now
People for the American Way filed a motion for summary judgment on September 4 that, in effect, asks the U.S. Third District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, to order the Loudoun County Library Board to jettison its Internet filtering policy and turn off the X-Stop blocking software installed on every public workstation in the eight-branch library system.
As justification for their action, lawyers from PFAW listed in their brief the URLs of additional Web sites they found during the discovery process were being unconstitutionally blocked at LCL computers, including the site for Kentucky tax forms and a Beanie Babies tribute page.
"Unlike Justice Potter Stewart, who said he could not intelligibly define obscenity but that 'I know it when I see it,' the [library board] claims it knows what is obscene without even having to look at it," the motion contends.
Posted September 7, 1998.
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