Burt Challenges Chicago PL to
Corroborate Internet Survey
A Chicago attorney representing pro-filtering activist David Burt has requested Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary A. Dempsey to turn over log sheets documenting a study showing that less than 5% of Internet traffic at CPL went to sexually explicit Web sites. A March 22 letter from Hoogendoorn, Talbot, Davids, Godfrey, and Milligan attorney James A. Davids asks the library to comply with Burt’s September 1999 Freedom of Information Act request.
In a press release, Burt claimed that Dempsey had refused, saying the logs “constitute notes and memoranda in which opinions are expressed or policies or actions are formulated” and are thus exempt under Illinois law. He contends the survey shows that “one out of every 20 adults and one out of every 50 children are using the Chicago libraries to view pornography.”
The Illinois FOIA law allows CPL seven days to respond to the letter.
Posted March 27, 2000.
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