From Surf to Surfing:How a NJ Court might rule on Filters & Libraries

Randy Anderson rmanders at sprynet.com
Thu Jul 31 18:06:06 EDT 1997


Thomas W. Perrin wrote:

> The court in its opinion ruled that municipalities are free of
> liability
> if they provide no lifeguards at all, but do incur liability if there
> is
> "some conduct, no matter how minute, evidencing an intention to
> supervise by way of monitoring."
>
> The parallels to the filter debate are very strong, and perhaps ought
> to
> be considered by those who would filter/censor.
>

So is the connection that we should elimate librarians from our library?
I'm lost?

Randy Anderson



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