Pornography on Educational Web Site
Traced to Local Library
Police are continuing their investigation into who used computers at Ringwood (N.J.) Public Library to post pornographic and anti-Semitic material on the computer bulletin board used by a local middle school. One teacher was portrayed as Adolf Hitler, whose posted message to students and parents was a torrent of anti-Jewish invective.
The service, SchoolNotes.com, is provided free by Edgate Inc. in Gig Harbor, Washington, but the Internet’s internal coding system indicated that the material came from two computers at RPL.
One Ryerson Middle School teacher is upset by the library policy of not requiring those who use its 19 public-access computer users to identify themselves. “The library should have had a policy to enable them to check on who is using the system,” the teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, told the July 5 Bergen Record.
The policy may change. “We have been looking into some sort of software management program . . . so people would be tracked,” said RPL Director Andrea Cahoon. “Let’s hope we can prevent [something like this] from happening again.”
Posted July 9, 2001.
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