{"id":1027,"date":"2014-07-03T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-07-10T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T00:16:03","slug":"filtering-limits-educational-resources-by-jenna-goodall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1027","title":{"rendered":"Filtering Limits Educational Resources by Jenna Goodall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jenna Goodall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new policy brief titled <em>Fencing Out Knowledge: Impacts of the Children\u2019s Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later<\/em><sup>1<\/sup>was released on June 11 by ALA\u2019s Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) and ALA\u2019s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF). This study found that in an attempt to implement CIPA, many schools and libraries are filtering beyond the legal mandate and blocking access to legitimate, educational resources. The report states that this \u201cdisproportionally impacts those who can benefit most from public library and school internet access\u2014the 60 million Americans without access to either a home broadband connection or smartphone.\u201d Recommendations for how to remedy this situation are given at the end of the report along with a call for more research.<\/p>\n<p>GLBTRT members Rae-Anne Montague and Carolyn Caywood pointed out on the GLBTRT listserv that two LGBT-focused lawsuits are mentioned in this report. The report gives examples of legal actions that were taken because of the limits of CIPA. One case mentioned is a Missouri case, <em>PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District<\/em><sup>2<\/sup> from 2012. A lawsuit was brought against this school district \u201cfor filtering access to websites under the category of \u201csexuality\u201d that were supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities while permitting access to anti-LGBT websites.\u201d A federal judge ordered the school district to remove the filters.<\/p>\n<p>In a footnote, a case from 2009 is mentioned: \u201cAnother lawsuit, <em>Franks v. Metropolitan Board of Public Education<\/em><sup>3<\/sup>, challenging two school districts in Tennessee for blocking access to gay educational websites, was settled out of court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, check out the full report<sup>4<\/sup> and ALA\u2019s press release<sup>5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/sites\/ala.org.offices\/files\/content\/oitp\/publications\/issuebriefs\/cipa_report.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/sites\/ala.org.offices\/files\/content\/oitp\/publications\/issuebriefs\/cipa_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/pflag-v-camdenton-r-iii-school-district\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/pflag-v-camdenton-r-iii-school-district<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids\/franks-v-metropolitan-board-public-education-case-profile\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids\/franks-v-metropolitan-board-public-education-case-profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/sites\/ala.org.offices\/files\/content\/oitp\/publications\/issuebriefs\/cipa_report.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/sites\/ala.org.offices\/files\/content\/oitp\/publications\/issuebriefs\/cipa_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2014\/06\/over-filtering-schools-and-libraries-harms-education-new-ala-report-finds\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2014\/06\/over-filtering-schools-and-libraries-harms-education-new-ala-report-finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jenna Goodall A new policy brief titled Fencing Out Knowledge: Impacts of the Children\u2019s Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later1was released on June 11 by ALA\u2019s Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) and ALA\u2019s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF). This study found that in an attempt to implement CIPA, many schools and libraries are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}