House OKs library filter bill

Gary Price posted This Tallahassee.com Story over at The ResourceShelf.

It says The Florida House passed a library filter bill.

The bill (HB 415) passed 97-12 and now goes to the Senate, where a similar version (SB 1250) has unanimously cleared two committees. Bills trying to restrict minors’ access to Internet porn and violence have passed one house or the other over the past four years.


Search for Bill HB 415 Here.

“Public Libraries/Computers/Obscenity; requires public libraries to install & maintain computer software or equivalent technology that prohibits access to obscene materials by minors; permits libraries to prohibit access to materials that incite violence; provides that installation of software or technology in library having only one public-access computer is within library’s discretion; provides finding of important state interest