Despite Legal Advice, Texas Commission
Orders Countywide Filtering
Notwithstanding the legal advice of the county attorney and an anti-filtering resolution from library trustees, the Montgomery County, Texas, Commission has ordered library director Jerilynn Williams to install blocking software on every public-access computer in the five-branch system.
The March 13 directive also instructed Williams to contact attorneys at the American Family Association’s American Center for Law and Justice about revising the library’s unfettered-access Internet policy, Williams told American Libraries. Anti-pornography activist William B. Elmer, who chairs the grass-roots group ADHOC (Adults Helping Our Children) had assured commissioners that ACLJ would defend the library in court for free if it had a hand in crafting the policy.
In a March 7 Conroe Bulletin letter to the editor, Elmer revealed that ADHOC is now “working with” North Harris Montgomery Community College Chancellor John Pickleman and trustees on a “family friendly” Internet policy.
Posted March 20, 2000.
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