REPORT: Reader's Block: Internet Censorship in RI Public Libraries (April 2005)

This report disclosed that CLAN – the Cooperating Libraries Automated Network, a non-profit consortium of public libraries headed by the state’s library directors and a separate staff – was filtering Internet content beyond what is required by a controversial federal law known as the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). CLAN manages a state-wide library filter to comply with the law’s mandate that all libraries receiving certain federal funds limit Internet access.