Parents Sue Library Group Over Graphic Online Porn in Schools
A group of Colorado parents has sued a state library group for allegedly allowing the distribution of pornography to school children. The parents claim that the Colorado Library Consortium is facilitating the access of unfiltered online pornography through the library group’s relationship with EBSCO, a nationwide corporation that provides educational databases to schools. EBSCO is also named in the lawsuit, filed on behalf of the parents by the Thomas More Society, a faith-based legal advocacy group.
The parents’ group, calling itself Pornography is Not Education, says that the EBSCO databases used by the library consortium “contain erotic and BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) stories that could be located through innocent searches by kids and their parents,” reported the Denver Post.
One of the parents, Drew Paterson, recalled that the problem came to light nearly two years ago when his...