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Texas County Commissioners
Warily Release Library Funds

Contrary to an ultimatum they issued in August, Collin County, Texas, commissioners voted September 1 not to withhold the last $32,500 installment in this year’s budget to libraries in their jurisdiction that don’t block obscenity from their public Internet workstations. However, the commission members left their options open about next year’s funding, and have asked to see the acceptable-use policies of all eight systems in the county.

“I would like to see as a minimum what Plano’s adopted,” Commissioner Jack Hatchell told the September 2 Dallas Morning News. Plano Public Library voted August 23 to filter all but one terminal at each of its four branches.

Noting after the meeting that he would prefer to see blocking software on every library computer, County Judge and commission member Ron Harris emphasized that the county needs to devise a library-funding plan that can withstand a court challenge. As to withholding all the funds punitively, he remarked, “What purpose would that serve?”

Posted September 6, 1999.

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