Plano (Tex.) Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Rick Neudorff is balking at a recommendation by a library advisory panel he served on that the public library offer unfiltered public Internet access at one computer per branch. “That defeats the intention of what we’ve been working on,” Neudorff reacted, according to the August 11 Dallas Morning News.
Neudorff’s disappointment was understandable, considering that he and several other council members have been negotiating for months with library officials to get filters on all Internet workstations. The newspaper noted that the six-member committee, which was comprised of three city council members and three library trustees, were unable to reach a consensus. They voted 4–2 to recommend that patrons be allowed to use an unfettered machine when their filtered search is blocked.
Neudorff and John Roach Jr., the other dissenting committee member from the city council, have written a minority report advocating universal filters. The council is scheduled to review the reports August 23.
Postde August 16, 1999.