[CPSLibraries] FW: Libraries to Deny Taxpayer Services -- Contact Your State Senator!

Mon May 14 12:48:03 CDT 2007

IL House Bill 1727 is still alive and unfortunately, well.  Please take the time to read this message and contact your IL Senator with your response.  As I mentioned in a previous E-mail, CPS already has major screening devices on all computers.  Do we need additional filters that our students take on as a challenge to find ways around?

If you are an ISLMA member the last newsletter has several websites to make your job easy in contacting legislators.  For those of you who are not members, please consider membership at www.ISLMA.org.  Below are some sites for you to use.

www.senate.gov; www.house.gov; www.ilga.gov/house/

Use this site for locating your legislator by zip code, http/zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp.

Sonja M. Terry, NBCT
Library Media Specialist
Benito Juarez Community Academy
2150 South Laflin Street
Chicago, IL   60608
773-534-7030

School Administrator Support Makes A Great School Library

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From: ljacobs363 at aol.com [mailto:ljacobs363 at aol.com]
Sent: Mon 5/14/2007 9:50 AM
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Here is how quickly the IFI can get their message out to their members.  We need to contact our senators to let them know how we feel about HB1727 and the distortions presented by the proponents.

Lou Ann Jacobs, ISLMA Board

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From: doyle at ila.org
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	FYI

	Illinois Family Institute has a huge distribution list and really knows how to crank out their material. Interesting that word got out to them so quickly.

	Inara

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	From: IFI E-Alert: [mailto:takeaction at illinoisfamily.org]
	Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:46 AM
	To: McGroarty, Inara
	Subject: Libraries to Deny Taxpayer Services -- Contact Your State Senator!

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	IFI E-Alert: Libraries to Deny Taxpayer Services -- Contact Your State Senator!

	By David E. Smith, Executive Director -Illinois Family Institute <http://www.illinoisfamily.org/> 

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	Click HERE <http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=33310>  to view IFI's Press Release.

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	Judith F. Krug
	Director, ALA's Office
	for Intellectual Freedom

	"I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children...."
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	The Illinois Library Association is encouraging libraries across the state to engage in an illicit protest today to deny patrons taxpayer funded Internet service to wildly exaggerating the effects of HB 1727.

	ACTION: Click HERE to contact your state senator to tell him/her that you strongly object to government employees using taxpayer time, facilities and resources to engage in a campaign of misinformation in order to continue to disseminate Internet pornography.

	Background
	Last week, the <http://votervoice.net/target.aspx?id=ilfi:15343467> Illinois Library Association (ILA), an affiliate of the Chicago based <http://www.ila.org/> American Library Association (ALA), told its members in an " <http://www.ala.org/> Action Request" to lobby against <http://www.ila.org/about/press/2007/update10.html> HB 1727, a bill that will require Illinois libraries to filter sexually graphic material on their Internet terminals.

	Part of ILA's lobbying strategy is to have local libraries "turn off the Internet," (or in other words, do not provide library patrons with the services they paid for with their tax dollars) and in the process, recruit outraged members of the public to their misleading cause by telling them that HB 1727 will cause them to lose Internet access at their library.

	What does this say about the ALA, the ILA and various local library directors and boards -- that they are they willing to completely shut out patrons from using tax-payer funded Internet computers to promote a pro-pornography-access agenda -- yet they are unwilling to filter out degrading sexual images to protect the children and families they serve?

	The fact that 21 states now have similar library Internet filtering laws, and that the libraries in these states continue to offer their library patrons Internet access, without X-rated websites, is conveniently ignored. <http://www.illinoisfamily.org/content/img/f33234/HB1727Internet_Filtering_Libraries.pdf> 

	I am shocked at the depths they are willing to go to maintain unfettered access to obscene and illegal material, including child pornography, and bestiality. Why are they so intent on defending smut over the health and safety of neighborhood children and families?

	The ALA and the ILA, in their protest of HB 1727, are not only wildly exaggerating the effects of Internet filtering with this stunt, but are outright misleading the public about the bill's intent. A main ALA argument is that filtering technology doesn't work. Yet even the liberal ACLU had an expert argue before a Federal District Court (in ACLU v. Gonzales, March 2007) that filters are about 95 percent effective in blocking unwanted sites, while providing full access to legitimate websites. The Judge agreed!

	I have been working on this issue for almost ten years now, and I can tell you that an overwhelming percentage of parents and law enforcement officials support this common sense legislation.

	No resident wants a child or some other family member rubbing shoulders in their local library with another person who has recently viewed sexually stimulating images on the Internet. The dangers are obvious.

	Your Local Library
	Your local library may be taking part in this illicit protest -- on your taxpayer time. Some Illinois libraries have posted their specific protest plan and their own contact information at <http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/07D0346P.pdf> www.illinoislibraryday.info.

	More Action: If your local library is planning to use tax dollars to print or distribute fliers, or plans to block Internet access on May 14th, we urge you to contact your local library board, library director and village or city officials to tell them that they cannot do this.

	Local librarians have NO RIGHT TO DENY LIBRARY USERS SERVICES they have paid for simply because of the librarians' political views.

	Below is a list of some of the protest plans available on the website:
	<http://www.illinoislibraryday.info/cgi-bin/unity/unity.cgi> 

		The Brookfield Public Library is turning off access to the Internet on Monday, May 14. We have posted "A Day of Unity in Illinois Libraries" flyers that both explains the proposed legislation and urges residents to contact their Senators to express opposition. Throughout the day, we will make form letters in opposition to the legislation available for our users and we will conduct demonstrations of how filters block legitimate material on the Internet. Computer workshops scheduled on May 14 have been cancelled and rescheduled.
		Phone: 708-485-6917

		Kimberly Litland 10 May 2007 - Brookfield Public Library

		We will distribute informational flyers to patrons beginning May 14 that ask them to protect their Internet access by contacting President Jones and their state Senator Todd Sieben. I have faxed a letter and sent an e-mail to President Jones asking him to hold the bill. I have written to Senator Sieben. I will encourage my Board of Trustees to at least call Senator Sieben and President Jones.
		Phone: 815-591-3517

		Shari Farral 10 May 2007 - Hanover Township Library

		We will be distributing a flyer to each patron during the week of May 14th about HB 1727, titled "You could lose the Internet service at your library!: Why? Read more and find out how you can help." The flyer encourages all patrons to contact our local state Senator Dale A. Righter regarding the proposed legislation. All trustees and Friends of the Library have been asked to do the same.
		Phone: 217/826-2535

		Nancy Claypool 10 May 2007 - Marshall Public Library

		For PALS we have written senate president Jones asking for the bill to be held and senator Hultgren asking for the bill to not come out of committee.

		Additionally, I've also written to my senator, Dave Syverson as well as senator Brad Burzynski, PALS Rockford service center building.
		Phone: 815-229-4452

		Inara L McGroarty 10 May 2007 - PALS Rockford Service Center

		The Chillicothe Public Library District will not be offering internet on Monday, May 14th. Signs have been posted, letters sent to the papers, and we have copies of letters available at the desk for the patrons to sign for both Dale Risinger and Governor Rod. We will be supplying the postage. Our Board of Trustees has also sent letters to the representatives, first thanking David Leitch for voting against the Bill, and then urging Dale Risinger to vote against it.

		Phone: 309-274-2719

		Lisa Poignant 10 May 2007 - Chillicothe Public Library District

		Internet Access will be turned off for patrons on Monday, May 14. Everyone will be given email address and fax numbers to contact senators to vote NO on House Bill 1727. Faxes and email have already been sent to Emil Jones asking him to hold HB1727 in Rules Committee by Walnut Library Staff. UNITED WE STAND!
		Phone: 815-379-2159

		Michele McAlvey 10 May 2007 - Walnut Public Library District

		Rock Island Public Library has informational flyers at public computers as well as signs posted around the library. Board, staff and friends have been asked to contact local legislators about the bill. We are trying to get an editorial about the bill in the local newspaper.
		Phone: (309) 732-7300

		Ava Ketter 10 May 2007 - Rock Island Public Library

		Arlington Heights Memorial Library is posting informational signs on all 50 of our public computers and having handouts available urging our residents to contact their legislators to vote NO on HB 1727.

		Phone: 847-506-2613

		Deb Whisler 10 May 2007 - Arlington Heights Memorial Library

		Newman Regional Library District will be downloading demonstration filters and setting them to maximum on Monday. Signs will be posted explaining the change. Letters to our Senator will be available for people to sign and fax to his office. Librarian and board members will send letters or e-mail to Senator.
		Phone: 217-837-2412

		Renee Henry 10 May 2007 - Newman Regional Library District

		The Palestine Public Library will be denying the pubic access to the Internet on Monday, May 14 for Day of Unity. A letter with legislator's contact information attached will be given to the public explaining why they have been denied access. The library board and director are also faxing, calling and emailing legislators.
		Phone: 618-586-5317

		Susan Lockhart 9 May 2007 - Palestine Public Library Dist.

		The Sheffield Public Library will not be offering internet access on Monday, May 14th. The patrons will be informed of why they cannot access the internet, and their Senator's information will be handed out so they can let their thoughts as voters be known. The library will send a patron's fax to the Senator's office for free on that Monday.
		Phone: 815-454-2628

		Tami Pettis 9 May 2007 - Sheffield Public Library

		We have sent a fax to Emil Jones office asking that he not allow the bill to reach the floor and explaining our objections to the provisions of HB1727.
		Phone: 309-799-3047

		Jeffrey Stafford 9 May 2007 - Robert R. Jones Public Lib. District

		Wyoming Public Library District is not offering Internet Service on Monday, May 14. The library is posting signs explaining why and giving out contact information of the local Senator.
		Phone: 309-695-2241

		Jane Scholl 9 May 2007 - Wyoming Public Library

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