The mayor of a small Oregon town who posted photographs of herself in her undies online has been asked by some constituents to resign, according to a report. Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, whose MySpace profile raised eyebrows in Arlington, Ore., faced residents Wednesday night at a town meeting, KATU.com reported Thursday. The station reported that roughly 75 people showed up to the meeting in this town of about 500 people."The apparent lack of leadership has become so blatant that we feel change has to be made," resident Ron Miller said, according to KATU.com. The mayor declined to resign, KATU.com said. Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace page is blocked to all but her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all users. In an interview with the (Pendleton) East Oregonian, the mayor said she did nothing wrong and those who are offended need to get over it. "That's my personal life," she said. "It has nothing to do with my mayor's position." Kontur-Gronquist, who is also the fire department's executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office. "I'm not going to change who I am," she said. "There's a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than scrape up stuff like this."

LIBRARY PORN In Florida, a young girl noticed a man viewing porn while acting indecently. Instead of getting booted out of the library, the man was asked to close the site and was monitored the rest of the day. Library administrators say they’re required to keep adult sites unblocked. The 2003 Children’s Internet Protection Act or CIPA requires public libraries to use filtering and blocking technology or lose federal funding.  Many have complied, but the American Library Association, with the help of the ACLU, is circumventing the law.  David Miller with Citizens for Community Values claims ALA has no legal authority. “It does, however, have a very liberal policy when it comes to patron’s access to material and its members are encouraged to push those same ideas and policies.” That includes granting every request to view filtered or blocked sites, often with the knowledge that kids will see it too. But David Burt with Filteringfacts.org says CIPA does not require them to do so. “The law does say they may disable it, it doesn’t say that they are required to disable it.” The Supreme Court ruled CIPA constitutional, but Concerned Women for America’s Matt Barber says the ALA and ACLU are using scare tactics to force libraries into allowing unlimited access. “We know that the ACLU and other organizations are using the First Amendment and saying this is an infringement on First Amendment rights for libraries and the rights of the individual using the library. Well, that’s simply not true.” Since the 2003 Supreme Court ruling, the ACLU has advised libraries to turn down all federal funds rather than be censored. 

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