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Virginia Considers Statewide FiltersThe Virginia General Assembly will consider legislation in its 2005 session requiring any public library that receives state funding to install internet filters on its computers.“These filters are inexpensive, they’re easy to use, they’re constitutional,” said House Delegate Samuel Nixon Jr. (R-Chesterfield) at a January 10 Family Foundation press conference, announcing his plan to introduce legislation identical to SB 882 already filed by state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg). Nixon, who proposed a similar bill that was defeated in committee last session, said such legislation would simply bring the state in line with federal law, the Associated Press reported January 12. “This problem is very real,” Family Foundation Executive Director Victoria Cobb said in the January 11 Washington Times, noting that her office had been recently alerted by a parent who said her child had been exposed to “obscene” material at a Henrico County library. Also in Henrico County, the board of supervisors held a special meeting January 11 to discuss a December 2004 incident in which a man was arrested after allegedly masturbating while looking at pornography on a computer at the county’s Glen Allen branch. The library’s director told the board the computer the man was using had a filter and that it was on, but that somehow the filter was breached, WRIC-TV reported January 12. Posted January 14, 2005. |
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