Our report on Smartfilter as used in the Utah school system is now available. If you do not have the free Adobe reader for the PDF version, you can download it here.

Censored Internet Access in Utah Schools and Libraries - PDF version

Censored Internet Access in Utah Schools and Libraries - HTML version

After you've read that, you may wish to read the followup.

The Censorware Project has now released our report, "Censored Internet Access in Schools and Libraries". We encourage feedback - you can contact the primary author at jellicle@inch.com.

The data used in compiling the report is available for the cost of duplication. Please contact Jamie McCarthy for details if interested.

Resources:

• Internet Filter Used in Schools Blocked the Bible, Salt Lake Tribune, March 23, 1999
• Not-So-Smart Filter, Salt Lake Tribune, March 23, 1999
• State's Filtering Effort Criticized, New York Times, September 16, 1998
• Records Panel Orders Probe Into Destruction of Files, Salt Lake Tribune, August 11, 1998
• GRAMA Useless After Records Have Been Erased, Salt Lake Tribune, August 10, 1998
• Email from George Brown of UEN, July 27, 1998
• Decision and Order issued by Utah State Records Committee, June 29, 1998
• Freedom Forum story, June 25, 1998
• Activist Wins Access to Internet Records, Salt Lake Tribune, June 26, 1998
• Web Filter Is Mindless Censor, Activist Claims, Salt Lake Tribune, June 13, 1998
• My appeal to the Utah State Records Committee
• UEN's response, denying access to the records
• Initial Request to UEN
• The original Salt Lake Tribune story