ACLU, Library Association File Suits Against Internet-Filtering Law

By Andrew Trotter

Washington

The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Association launched a legal attack last week on a new federal law that would require schools and libraries to install technological devices—often called filters—to block minors from accessing pornographic images on the Internet.

But those lawsuits, even if successful, may not affect the law as it applies to schools, officials of both organizations said.

Schools and libraries that do not comply with the law would lose federal money for technology and federal E- rate...