Michigan Activists Get Filter Initiatives
on Local Ballots
Voters in Holland and Hudsonville, Michigan, will decide in special elections on February 22 whether they want their public libraries to filter Internet content on every workstation but one, thanks to a successful petition drive by the American Family Association.
Hudsonville activists gathered 35 signatures, 15 more names than they needed to satisfy a requirement that 10% of the voters in the last election sign a ballot-measure petition. In Holland, the three granddaughters of Holland Area Family Association President Jim Rozeboom filed petitions with 2,567 names, almost 1,000 more than that community’s ordinance requires. “If [kids] know how to get on the Internet, they shouldn’t see bad stuff,” 8-year-old Amber Petroelje said in the December 1 Grand Rapids Press.
HAFA board member Peggy Cleveringa, who collected 300 signatures for the Holland petition drive even though she resides in Grand Haven, has indicated she will launch a similar campaign in her town if the Holland measure passes.
Posted December 6, 1999.
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