TENNESSEE - A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit against Tennessee school districts that once blocked access to gay-themed Web sites. The schools already had agreed to remove the filters to the sites.
If that agreement is broken, the case will return to court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which fought in favor of students suing the schools.
The suit that included Metro Nashville Public Schools and Knox County was over access to sites that were nonsexual.
In mid-April, the ACLU sent a letter to the Nashville school district asking to adjust search filtering software that would allow students to access Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network; the Human Rights Campaign; the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; and Dignity USA.
The ACLU filed the case on May 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Metro Schools and Knox County Schools on behalf of three high school students in Nashville, one student in Knoxville and a high school librarian in Knoxville who also is the adviser of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance.
from The Tennessean
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