March 27, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing the Sacramento Public Library Authority to loosen its Internet restrictions.The first issue being considered involves Internet filters. Adults can turn off the filters, but teenagers and children cannot. The filters sometimes block sites that have information about medications.
The second issue is a "shoulder-tap" policy that would allow library staff to ask people to stop looking at a Web page that might be offensive to others.
The policy is censorship, the ACLU said, and it needs to be changed.
"It's a bad thing. Under our First Amendment and under our constitutional system, the government should not be telling us what to read or what to look at any more than the government should be telling us what to think," the ACLU's Michael Risher said.
"This is something that is an excuse to open up the floodgates for people to be able to view what we consider inappropriate, and to use our public funds for doing it and it’s wrong," parent Jayme DuFort said.
The board did not come to a decision on the policy Thursday evening. It plans to bring up the policy again next month.
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