The Chicago Public Library protects the open and rampant use of Internet pornography by library patrons. This blog is an attempt to bring awareness to this issue and enact change.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Dangerous? Yes. Another example from the news...

Here is yet another example of why allowing porn use in the library is dangerous.

Here's the full story:

Porn-watching peeper arrested in library
(Found on the following website: http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2009/01/14/News/Police.Beat-3585459.shtml)

A man was arrested on charges of second degree criminal trespassing Jan. 9 at 10 a.m.

Police responded to the Main Library after a woman reported that a man followed her into the bathroom. The woman said that prior to entering the bathroom she saw the man walking towards the restroom. Once she was inside the stall, she saw the man enter the restroom and stop by her stall. She could see him through the crack between the stalls' door and its frame. The woman said, "Excuse me!" and the man left.

Police later located the man viewing pornographic material on a computer screen in the Integrated Learning Commons. The woman identified him as the man who had followed her into the restroom.

He verbally identified himself to police. A check on his name showed that he had two criminal misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest from the Tucson Police Department. The man said that he had no association with the UA but frequented the library in order to use the computers and view pornographic materials online. He told officers, "I was watching porn earlier today and got excited. So, I decided to follow this lady inside the restroom to peep on her."

The man was taken to the Pima County Jail where he was booked for the two warrants and second degree criminal trespass. He was also given an exclusionary order prohibiting him from being on any UA owned or controlled properties.



1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the heads up. I track hundreds of library crime stories, FYI.

    By the way, I like your blog, and added a link to it on mine, SafeLibraries.

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