S640 Blog Posting #7 Maywin Jackson
As seen below, this Clermont, Ohio County Public Library has sculpted its most current Meeting room policy after a court decision as opposed to a Library Board decision.
All of this happened after two people had requested the use of the library meeting room for a Financial Freedom seminar. This seminar used content from the “Crown Financial Series,” which is a Christian based financial program. If you have either the time or interest, this is the article URL.
Also, here is the URL of the very simple and more current CCLibrary Meeting Room Policy.
Evidently the couple who was refused use of the room did not appeal the decision via the library board; but took it right to the courts. It seems they also did not request a change in the room policy. The CCPL library board changed their policy (below), and then offered to help find a suitable place for the plaintiffs to conduct their meetings. The offer was declined.
The library’s insurance policy paid for half of the $10,000 lawyers’ fees/the Vandergriffs (plaintiffs), were awarded $2.00. I’m not sure if the plaintiffs were simply ignorant of the library’s process for dealing with such situations, or maybe did not trust an internal ruling, or if they simply wanted money. Maybe the attorneys gave the plaintiffs false hope. Who knows?
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That's kind of sad. Think of all that wasted time and money. :/ I'll admit, I can see why some people may be skeptical of internal processes used to handle stuff like this, though. But It's frustrating that they wouldn't even have tried this yet.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why they completely avoided going through the library first (to dispute everything). But it is frustrating and disappointing that the library narrowed its policy even more. It seems like the library is just trying to avoid future controversy.
ReplyDeleteThe fact the people did not trust the library speaks volumes that they have not been informed. Is this our fault? Like marketing ourselves should we also market our library system(how it works).
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ReplyDeleteOuch, this hurts. What were these people thinking? Talk about poor communication.
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