Talk:Multnomah County Library

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[edit] US v. ALA and Refusal to Filter Missing

Wow. Totally missing, except in a See Also link that does not itself mention Multnomeh, is MCL's involvement in US v. ALA and the library's subsequent refusal to filter so as to obviate the need for compliance with US v. ALA, thereby giving up $104,000 per year in federal funding.

Further, when one person partly responsible for the decision to join in the suit against CIPA, then to refuse federal funding, was running for office, someone else put out a political flyer specifically pointing to this as the reason why her child was sexualized in the public library. The politician filed a SLAPP suit that he later withdraw. Eventually, he lost the election even though he was a Democrat running in 2006 when Democrats were winning like wild.

Will someone please take a stab at writing something regarding this issue. US v. ALA is a US Supreme Court case so I think that makes the whole thing notable. Some of the source material is discussed and linked in an article I wrote as republished here: http://www.safelibraries.org/valuevoters.htm Thanks. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 23:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Great minds think alike…I just noticed that absence myself earlier this morning! Weird. Not sure it would be accurate to give the library issue the weight you ascribe in the Brading/Minnis races, though: Minnis was not merely an incumbent, but the Speaker of the House, and she spent literally 7x what Brading did defending her seat (in the first race, not sure about the second.) The campaigns did not focus so very heavily on the library issue (though it was a factor.) I think you could just as easily argue that the fact Brading did as well as he did against a well-known incumbent, had to do with his work with the libraries. (I don't think either is accurate -- I don't think the library thing was a dominating issue in that race.) Anyway, I'll do some digging for coverage of this issue, and add something after a bit of research. -Pete (talk) 00:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

There is a lot missing from the article. The original author only had a small paragraph, and I added mainly building info and old history. I was researching Portland City Hall, which had the PPL in it and was remodel shortly after the Central Branch, so a fair amount of library info came up. Which I added here and to the Central Branch article. The history jumps from 1913 or so to 1990, so plenty of room for expansion there. Aboutmovies (talk) 01:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Right, all. Hence why I'm suggesting others write it. Further, the Brading/Minnis thing should not be relevant at all to this page, however, in my opinion. But it is relevant regarding the pamphlet because it became an issue worthy of note when the candidate noted it himself by bringing a SLAPP suit against her. That candidate helped make the relevant decisions for the library, and that SLAPP suit was to stop disclosure of information related to his opinions for the library, and he was part of the library at the basis of US v. ALA, and he lost, and together all that makes what happened quite relevant/appropriate/what have you, for an encyclopedic article. But I do not think Minnis has anything to do with this. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 02:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] notes for expansion

MCL offered limited access to Internet as early as 1995; some concern about children and inappropriate material. Manzano, Phil; John Snell. "Cyber smut", The Oregonian, March 23, 1995.