Pornography found on a computer at the Ragland (AL) Public Library back in February has members of the town council and library board at odds.
Actions taken to remove the computer from the library premises and clean off the hard drive have also raised questions.
“One of the council members wanted to take the computer to District Attorney Richard Minor, and I said, ‘no.’ Why? Because I couldn’t prove no more than anyone else could who was the one responsible for the pornography. I’m not going to get this town sued over what someone thinks. I don’t care who they are. I’ve been here 16 years, and I’ve never been in a lawsuit we ain’t won.”
Oh wow…
You read the article and it just keeps getting more bizarre.
First they speak of cleaning the hard drive as if it’s something one does with sponges and Lysol. They make it sound like a real chore to log in as an admin, dump the cache, delete the porn, and go about your day. I didn’t know deleting porn was so… involved.
Then it sounds like somebody stole the computer from the library and that it’s a very good possibility that somebody was acting under orders from a mayor…
Who was in the hospital at the time.
The library updated their filtering system… good. But at least the librarian is clear on the idea that filtering systems don’t work.
Oh and because the computer was bought with federal funds, a state librarian claims that the computer, at least in some way, belongs to an unnamed federal organization. Um… what?
But if that is true, then whoever did steal the computer quite possibly committed a felony.
And how did they clean off the computer? Well, they took it to a computer shop. I guess no one knew how to delete files from a hard drive. Wonder how much that cost the taxpayers?
Finally, the bestest and bizarrest part of all this is that they keep referring to the two main town council people by their last names, White and Looney.
Indeed.
Good god, do these people even read books or do they sort of just gnaw on the covers?
Some books contain the machinery required to create and sustain universes. Tycho (Jerry Holkins) @ Penny Arcade
Good question
Good god, do these people even read books or do they sort of just gnaw on the covers?
Perhaps the town should expend even more hard-earned tax dollars to keep those people in teething rings so they can leave the books alone?
There is nothing that cannot be found offensive by someone, somewhere.