- "Second Birmingham Library Worker Sues Employer, Claiming Patrons Look at Pornography on Computers," by the Associated Press, The Birmingham News, 20 July 2011.
- "Birmingham, Ala. Library Worker Sues Over Porn," by the Associated Press, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2011.
- "Alabama Adult Entertainment Crime Blotter Round-Up," by Tom Hymes, AVN Media Network, 20 July 2011.
- "Birmingham Library Sued for Being 'Sexually Hostile' Workplace," by Melanie Posey, Fox 6 WBRC, 19 July 2011: Watch the News Video Broadcast.
The First Victim of the BPL was Barbara Ann Wilson—The Library Cared Less
Witness the power of porn that a library sued for sexual harassment due to its policies allowing unfettered porn cared nothing about its employees and did nothing to protect them. The BPL simply let the problem fester until yet another library employee sues. Will it ever end?
Porn May Be Removed and ALA Dogma May Be Ignored
- Porn may be legally removed from public libraries and American Library Association [ALA] dogma is just that—dogma.
- Other librarians harassed as a result of another library flouting librarian and community interests in favor of obeisance to ALA diktat won the limits of the library's insurance coverage, $435,000. See "Adamson v. Minneapolis Public Library." Does your community wish to pay this, and more?
Local Governments Can Control Libraries That Act Outside the Law
Basically, where the library acts outside the law, the government can force it to act within the law without otherwise violating its autonomy. And where library policy allows libraries to be open public fora where anything goes, since the US Supreme Court said libraries are only quasi public fora (US v. ALA, 539 U.S. 194 (2003)), then the library is acting outside the law.
I Offer Local Governments My Assistance On Ridding ALA Influence
The Issue is Not Pornography
Library Thumbs Its Nose At the Community
The library is thumbing its nose at the community. "Library patrons are looking at pornography on the Internet and management is doing nothing about it." That sound right to you? Get a load of this from the library management, the library told the sexually-harassed employee, "If you don't like it leave":
Library tells sexually-harassed employee,
"If you don't like it leave."
"If you don't like it leave."
It is the existing library (mis)management and ALA policy that needs to leave. It's the community's library, not the ALA's library.
I have advice for the attorney for the two women, Adam Morel, Esq. Sue the City of Birmingham. It had fair notice of the condition the first time around. Nothing was done. It had fair notice that the library might even be defrauding the federal government under CIPA. Again, nothing was done. Treble damages might even be appropriate under the right circumstances.
Advice for Adam Morel, Esq.: Sue Birmingham
I have advice for the attorney for the two women, Adam Morel, Esq. Sue the City of Birmingham. It had fair notice of the condition the first time around. Nothing was done. It had fair notice that the library might even be defrauding the federal government under CIPA. Again, nothing was done. Treble damages might even be appropriate under the right circumstances.
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