County Officials Unseat Greenville Trustees
Opposed to Filters
The Greenville County (S.C.) Commission has unseated four of the five incumbent library trustees seeking reappointment to the 11-member body. The commission’s February 15 action came one month after the library board resisted public pressure to have blocking software installed, opting instead to require written parental permission before minors can surf the Internet on the library’s unfiltered computers. Of the seven trustees elected to the board, four polled in the February 14 Greenville News said they’d consider filters as a means of keeping pornography off library computers.
Although County Council Chairman Dozier Brooks told the paper that “not using filters wasn’t my main concern,” he added, “We cannot allow pornography to be available to children at the library.”
The library made national headlines following a January 21 visit there by presidential candidate John McCain, who blasted officials for allowing patrons to visit sexually explicit Web sites.
County Councilman Scott Case was quoted as saying there was also “a high level of concern” over a recent audit critical of management practices.
Posted February 28, 2000.
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