John Berry chose to ignore what I sent to him by fax and discussed with him over the telephone. John told me that he would have compromised with us from the very beginning. But I guess he's not interested in reporting such details - the truth only gets in the way. That's already been done by the Ohio state legislature years ago. We weren't asking for anything more that what's been adopted in other libraries here in Ohio and in other states.
Nothing is required for access - no parental consent form, library card, etc.
The majority of libraries in Ohio have some sort of parental consent process. We have researched what almost all of Ohio's 250 libraries are requiring of their patrons. All we ever wanted is what other libraries have instituted on their own - without an outcry from their community, without all of the media coverage. Medina being the poster child for poor judgement and extreme arrogance. Just last month the board revealed that they conducted their own inhouse random poll of library patrons.