Sacramento's 27 public libraries will continue to provide access to pornography on library computers after the board deadlocked in a 7-7 vote last week.
The board also voted to spend $21,000 in taxpayer funds to purchase special desks for viewing pornography.
David Sander, alternate Sacramento Library Board member, said the issue should not be up for debate.
“Pornography does not belong in public libraries, period,” he said in a letter supplied to California Catholic Daily. “Libraries are places for kids and families to learn and explore, not a den of sexual exploitation where anything goes.”
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Children’s Internet Protection Act, which requires libraries receiving certain federal funds to filter out pornography. Sacramento does not take such funding.
