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No Filters, No Funds, South Carolina SaysThe South Carolina State Library board voted 5–0 August 30 to comply with a recent state law requiring them to install filters on computers in the library as well as withhold funding from all public libraries that do not filter 90% of their public Internet workstations, the Columbia State reported August 31. In early August the board had requested clarification on the law from the South Carolina attorney general’s office, particularly with regard to who should enforce the law and whether public-school libraries are affected. However, Attorney General Charlie Condon, responding to a request from South Carolina House Majority Leader Richard Quinn (R-Richland), released an opinion August 27 that supported the filters. “The new law now clearly requires each and every public library to use Internet filters, no ifs, ands, or buts,” Condon said. Quinn said he was pleased with the library’s vote, but thought it “unfortunate that we had to go through an attorney general’s opinion and some threatening letters to make sure they do this.” State Library Director Jim Johnson told the State, “We’ve always maintained that we would be in compliance, once we’ve gotten clarification, and the board took that action today.” Posted September 4, 2001. |
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