http://www.enough.org/inside.php?tag=statistics Archive of Statistics on Internet Dangers INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MOBILE PORNOGRAPHY ONLINE SEXUAL PREDATORS YOUTH ADULTS CHRISTIANS AND SEXUAL BROKENNESS PUBLIC LIBRARIES HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PUBLIC LIBRARIES YEAR LIBRARIES FILTERING SOURCE 1998 14% National Commission on Library and Information Science 2000 24% National Commission on Library and Information Science 2002 43% Library Journal 2004 65% Library Journal *The pedophile monitoring group, PedoWatch, has confirmed that online pedophiles are telling each other to use public libraries to download child pornography. PedoWatch is "one of the oldest organizations on the Internet that is working with law enforcement worldwide to remove child pornography and child luring activity," and currently works with "over 125 law enforcement officers" to monitor the activities of online pedophiles. (Dangerous Access, 2001 Edition, David Burt.) *Public libraries have become a breeding ground for the sexual exploitation of children. (Donna Rice Hughes, Senate Hearing Testimony, 3/28/00)
http://touch.dailypress.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73584615/ http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/0...-despite-child-pornography-arrest--79666.html
RACINE - A registered sex offender has been caught allegedly looking at child porn on a computer at a public library. On Thursday at 12:30 p.m., Racine police responded to the Racine Public Library for a suspicious person. Library patrons saw a man viewing what appeared to be child pornography images on a computer. The patrons alerted library employees, who also saw the images and called the police. Police identified the suspect as Roger J. Clawson 53, of 826 Main Street. Officers say they seized a floppy disc, which Clawson was removing from the hard drive upon their arrival. Clawson claimed to be viewing adult images, but was taken to the police department for further questioning. While at the police department, officers say Clawson attempted to erase images he had on a cell phone. Investigators drafted search warrants for the phone, the floppy disc and Clawson’s apartment. Several images of child pornography were found on the floppy disc, police said. Police also seized two computer hard drives from Clawson’s apartment. Clawson has a past conviction of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a minor and is a registered sex offender. He is prohibited from having contact with minors and using a computer. http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/45567192.html
These pedophiles are caught because people at the library see them watch child porn and tell. Ideas on how to work this? 'You Found the Card' left in libraries with a warning about pedophiles?
Seeing there's an organization dealing with this, our task should be to hel them by e.g. tip them off of any perpetrator, not meddle in their work.
Simple soultion: Pass this information around libraries, and have the computer section placed in a high visible area. Also, What about writing laws were sex offenders have to notify the librarians that they are sex offenders before accessing the computers? Frankly, the library is a place were children go, so this trend is dangerous for public safety.
remote desktop viewing with random screen captures on all library computers, a computer user register recording name, ph etc coupled with video recording of the registration desk and the computers, pref with full view of the screen, now they have a record of who used the comp, what they viewed and also screen cap + video images to support prossicution
Step back and think about your statements, every one you've made here.Understand you cannot be everywhere at once, don't jump on every bandwagon you see, and stop telling us how to do the business we have managed successfully long before you jumped in.
just telling how it's done here, we dont have prob's with sicko's browsing child porn on the library computers because the computers are. heavily monitored. take a chillaxitive and stop nit picking
You are a newfag, learn from us. We know what we are doing here, we are experts with years of experience. Calm down.
Maybe just pooning all libraries with the info of this case, and alerting them to the possibility it may be happening in their library would be helpful, cost effective and not involve legislation or big $ costs. Easy for concerned Anons to do if wanting to help
The computers in libraries here are not heavily monitored, in fact in my town they put in computers with privacy screens so people can watch porn in peace. I have no problem with porn, but seems like a stupid policy. The arrests for child porn in libraries are because a library patron saw and called police.
You know, librarians are a very connected bunch. they have their own forums that they discuss library problems with each other and come up with solutions. The other day i visited one because they had a thread complaining about what to do with all the stupid ass scilon books that they keep being forced to get. Maybe if we posted the link to the information on one of their forums, they would pass the word around. IF they haven't already.
Bad news: I could not find the thread with the librarian manager forums link good news These forums showed up when i googled library forums. http://brooklynian.com/forum/ http://www.library20.com/forum http://www.librarything.com/groups/librarianswholibrar http://liswiki.org/wiki/Discussion_groups I am pretty sure these guys are well aware of the problem, but it never hurts to "make sure". sorry i cant be more help
Education is always going to be the best option, if librarians know of the possible activities that are talking place they can look in to ways of combating the problem. Do public computers not require individual logins? Surely its a simple case of requiring the users library card for identification prior to being allowed access to the system?
I dont know if that's possible. That would require having a library card for that library. Not all libraries are the same. Some want access for everyone, and only require the cards for checking out materials, some only want to serve the tax payers. But yes, education is the best option, from what i have seen, some librarians are a very educated bunch, and probably have some creative, subtle solutions to these problems.
In hindsight I'm not sure that is really a solution I would like to see implemented anyways, you shouldn't have to monitor or police the net. The real task at hand should be figuring out the cause of the problem in the first place and killing it at the source. But also making it almost impossible to find such content in the first place. What drives a man/woman to child abuse/seeing them as sexual objects?
Insanity, to answer you latter question. Also i want to stress that libraries are sometimes volunteer only. It becomes harder if you have to have an admin. Simple computer sign in(via a paper log book), followed by having them in a public location seems to be the best way to keep everything legit. Remember, if its library computers, then they are owned by everyone, and YOU should be courteous and only use them for legitimate reasons.
Computers in plain sight seems fair, as you are in a library its safe to assume that you should be using them to gain knowledge and not doing other questionable things. I wonder how big an issue porn is in library's anyways haha
