Livermore Plaintiff Vows to Appeal
After Suit Is Dismissed
California superior court Judge George Hernandez has dismissed without explanation an amended suit brought against Livermore Public Library to mandate filtering software for children's-area workstations. “The library did not want to be in a position of telling anyone what they can read, see, or hear,” LPL Director Susan Gallinger told the Associated Press January 15.
“The library's policy is sensitive both to First Amendment concerns and the concerns of parents,” ACLU attorney Ann Brick stated. The ACLU had filed a friend of the court brief in favor of the library December 23.
Plaintiff attorney Michael Millen has vowed to appeal on behalf of his clients, named in the suit as Kathleen R. and her son Brandon P. “When libraries allow minors to access obscene pornography from library computers, the library is responsible for providing them the obscene material, the same as any adult who provides a minor with obscene material and goes to prison,” he told the AP.
Posted January 18, 1999.
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