Overlawyered.com has an interesting series of stories that show the position public libraries have now been put into by recent legal happenings.
Sued either way: \”EEOC:
unfiltered computers \’harass\’ librarians\”, June 4, 2001; \”Customer
offense\” (supermarket bagger with Tourette\’s), June 9-11, 2000; \”Columnist-fest\”
(Mona Charen on March 10-12 story, below), April 6; \”Accused
of harassment; wins $2 million from employer\”, March 10-12; \”\’Judgment
reversed in Seinfeld case\’\”, Feb. 26-27, 2000; \”Employment-law
retaliation: real frogs from \’totally bogus\’ gardens\”, Sept. 29, 1999.
Meanwhile Wired Is Reporting South Dakota\’s state government is rejecting Web filters as cumbersome and unnecessary, they enforce the Internet policy with stiff punishment instead of technology. 20 workers were fired or suspended or suspended so far.
\”People are adults, and if they can\’t be adults they have to pay the consequences,\”-spokesman Bob Mercer
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