Tucson's Arizona Daily Star reports on a "robocall" advertisement for supervisor candidate Barney Brenner, who claims that incumbent Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson has voted to let libraries "become places where adult men watch X-rated video pornography with our kids nearby."
 
The newspaper offers some background: like most libraries following the Children's Internet Protection Act, the Pima County Public Library filtered children's computers but allowed adults to choose filtered or unfiltered use. After TV news reports, via hidden cameras, that adults were watching porn, Bronson and two other supervisors agreed to both have the library install privacy screens on computers and also have a committee develop a new policy.

Now, after to a vote by Bronson and others, the policy has been tightened: adults can get unfiltered access, but only after reading a statement that displaying harmful material in the presence of minors is a crime in Arizona.

The library's policy explains that the filter is still used to send warnings: "When adults using library computers attempt to access a questionable site (such as sites that are sexually or violently explicit) they will first see a screen advising them of state and federal cautions regarding viewing of questionable websites in public use areas.Adults then can choose to proceed or cancel their website choice."

Brenner supports blanket filtering of Internet use, a policy that relatively few libraries have adopted and, for one library at least, is under challenge in court. (Here's the latest.)