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Anchorage Library Objects to FiltersAnchorage (Alaska) Municipal Libraries Director Moe McGee has asked city administrators to lift Websense filters from the library’s computers following a decision several weeks ago by Mayor Rick Mystrom and his executive committee to filter all municipal Internet connections. McGee said she supports unrestricted Internet access for both staff and public, and that the library’s policy, which instructed patrons not to display sexually explicit materials on a computer screen because others might see them, had worked fine without filters, the Anchorage Daily News reported August 22. But Mystrom says the filters aren’t much different from the library’s previous “tap-on-the-shoulder” policy. “They were already censoring. This just does it more efficiently,” he said. June Pinnell-Stephens, collection services manager at Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library and Regional Center, said she will ask the Alaska Civil Liberties Union to consider a lawsuit if the filters aren’t removed. For now, McGee told American Libraries, the library will “adhere to the mayor’s policy while we continue to encourage them to evaluate the concerns of the library.” Posted August 30, 1999. |
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