Bradburn et al v. North Central Regional Library District

Filing 64

DECLARATION by Dean Marney in Support re 28 MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by North Central Regional Library District. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Pages 5-34)(Adams, Thomas)

Bradburn et al v. North Central Regional Library District

Doc. 64 Att. 1

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Preventing Internet Predators in Libraries
When you think of Internet stalking you probably never think of it happening inside of a public
library. But, police say that's exactly what David Dosier of Russellville did. Police arrested Dosier Monday as he sat at a computer in the Russelville branch of the Pope County Library. Investigators say Dosier was using library computers to chat

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with someone he thought was a child. In reality, it
was a Conway police officer.

Dosier is behind bars and two library computers have been siezed as evidence.
This arrest raised the question, could possible

predators use library computers to stalk victims?

"We'll have 1,500 to 2,000 people probably everyday using the computers. And 99.5 percent of them are going to obey the rules," said Dr. Bobby Roberts with the Central Arkansas Library System.

Library administrators in Little Rock have
implemented rules to keep their computers from

undesirable hands and undesirable uses. Administrators do not allow obscene files or images, malicious, libelous or slanderous messages. They say the most important thing is to
prevent child predators, so they don't allow live

chatting on library computers.
Roberts says, "And if we see some problem that violates our rules, we would call that immediately
As many as 2000 people use the

to tlie attention of the person. Usually those violations are minor. But if we had any reason to
suspect any criminal activity going on we would certainly pursue that with the pol ice."
Carol Coffey is the head of Reference, "You would come up to the desk. If you had a library card, a member of the staff would show you how to make a reservation for a computer."

library computers every day.

Usel-S in the CALS cannot simply walk in off the street and sit down at a computer.

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