Trustees decided December 14 to install filters on four computers in the children’s room of Upper Arlington (Ohio) Public Library, as a result of a complaint to the city council over open access. Charles K. Reed, a regular listener of Laura Schlessinger’s syndicated radio show, went to the library last September and found, he said, “two teenage boys perusing porn on the Internet,” according to an announcement on Dr. Laura’s Web site.
For his activism, Reed earned the first Dr. Laura Warrior of the Month award in October, consisting of a t-shirt and a pair of airplane tickets.
Beginning March 1, minors must have a permission slip from their parents that indicates whether or not they should have unfiltered access to the library’s computers, according to the December 17 Columbus Dispatch.
Posted December 27, 1999.