Public Library and Porn

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) – Patrons of the public library watch pornography of all sorts, a library assistant says; sometimes they masturbate, and when she’s tried to stop it they have followed her around and screamed at her. She says her bosses blew off her complaints of the “sexually hostile work environment” and the “severe, pervasive, unwelcomed and offensive obscene and pornographic materials,” so she sued the city and its Public Library Foundation.
Barbara Ann Wilson, a library assistant III, claims the defendants “have installed computers in various parts of the library in such a manner as to make it difficult, if not impossible, for staff and/or other patrons to avoid viewing the material displayed on the computer terminals.”
“The computers are routinely used to access obscene and pornographic materials,” she says in her federal complaint.

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