Interesting Porn Related Lawsuit, what ya tink?
 

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/te...ary-porn_x.htm

Librarians sue over being subjected to Internet porn

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? A barrage of Internet pornography has turned the downtown library into a hostile work environment for a dozen librarians, according to claims in a new federal lawsuit.

The 12 sued the city library system Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, alleging they endured an intimidating, hostile and offensive workplace that violated state and federal law. The lawsuit seeks damages of at least $400,000 each, plus workplace changes.

But one of the librarians, Wendy Adamson, said they still are willing to participate in mediation of the dispute.

The women first filed discrimination charges with federal and state agencies in 2000.

"It's been three years. We would have sat down with the library at any time during those three years, and they wouldn't do it," Adamson said.

The case has aroused national attention as it seeks to define how far libraries should go to avoid censorship, at the risk of exposing librarians and patrons to unwanted images.

"We were living in hell, and they were unwilling to acknowledge the problem," said Adamson.

The librarians and their lawyer, Bob Halagan, will be going against a library system that has had considerable turnover since the complaints were made. Library Director Mary Lawson, whom the librarians claimed was unwilling to impose stricter controls on computer use, has been replaced.

Her successor, Kit Hadley, said that she will consult with the library board's attorney on legal options but that her goal was a better working environment for all library users.

The issue arose soon after Internet access was installed in 1997. Almost immediately, the librarians claimed, the screens began displaying "virtually every imaginable kind of human sexual conduct."

One librarian, Nancy Corcoran, told Lawson about the exposure, but the director said she favored a policy of unfettered use of the Internet, the lawsuit alleges. The matter escalated through 2000, prompting debate about the extent to which the library should try to control access, limit use and protect children and others within view of screens.

Library officials said they had instituted guidelines aimed at curbing the abuses, but the librarians said the new policies didn't go far enough.

The lawsuit alleges that the 12 librarians became increasingly upset and angry at the library system and patrons.

Finally, in May 2000, they filed discrimination charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

A year later, the EEOC found probable cause that federal law had been violated because of a sexually hostile work environment. The case was referred to the Justice Department, which after a 19-month review decided last month not to file suit.

This is lawyer bullshit, the shame of it is . A woman is really getting harassed at work and bullshit like this dilutes it. This is right wing see we told you so shit.

Money hungry bitches wanting money for nothing. I'm sure there so emotionally traumatized by it. yeah right

those same women would take it up the ass for money