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Find the people involved in Utah and Colorado complaints, official decisions, restoration efforts and legal responses. Each entry dates the role and links its sources.
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Empowered Families Coalition / WOW
Argued against restoring EBSCO and credited Colorado with prompting her Utah searches. The strategy names her coalition chair; 2020 minutes call her president of both organizations. She later promoted database legislation.
Family Watch International / Empowered Families Coalition
Spoke to keep access blocked on October 1 and opposed restoration on October 19. The minutes identify her organizational roles. The October 19 record spells her first name Merilee.
Utah Senate
Forwarded a database complaint to recipients including Ray Timothy on September 20, 2018. Served as Senate sponsor of HB38 in 2021.
Utah House of Representatives
Sponsored School Technology Amendments, enacted in 2021. The enrolled bill names Weiler as Senate sponsor.
Utah Education and Telehealth Network
Received Weiler’s forwarded complaint. UETN’s account says it reached staff that evening; the October 19 minutes record Timothy’s support for restoring access after the changes.
Utah State Library / UETN board
Cast the sole opposing vote against keeping access blocked on October 1. Moved for reinstatement on October 19 and led the reactivated Online Library Committee later that year.
Utah Library Association
Urged restoration of access and co-signed the ULA statement with Rebekah Cummings. His firsthand account describes organizing with Cummings and library and education groups.
Utah Library Association
Co-signed the statement asking UETN to restore EBSCO. Bromberg describes working with her on the restoration effort.
Utah State Board of Education
Spoke for restoring access at the October 1 UETN meeting and voted for USBE’s conditional-restoration motion on October 4.
Utah State Board of Education
Voted against USBE’s motion asking for restoration after student-protection steps. The motion and roll call are in the October 4 minutes.
UETN governing board
Presided over the October meetings, voted to keep access blocked on October 1, and presented the eventual restoration motion on October 19. Elected chair in December.
Pornography Is Not Education (PINE)
Represented PINE in support of SB19-048. Also read Jenna Ellis’s testimony on behalf of Colorado Family Action. The Utah strategy credits the Patersons with prompting its effort.
Pornography Is Not Education (PINE)
Represented PINE in support of SB19-048. The Utah strategy credits the Patersons with prompting its effort.
Thomas More Society / Brown & Brown LLC
Listed as counsel on PINE’s complaint against EBSCO and the Colorado Library Consortium. PINE is the named plaintiff.
Telios Law PLLC
Listed as Colorado counsel on PINE’s complaint against EBSCO and CLiC.
Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
Issued CLiC’s statement announcing that PINE had dropped its suit against both defendants the previous week.
Colorado Senate
Presented the database-filtering bill and discussed EBSCO at the Senate Judiciary hearing. The committee postponed the bill indefinitely.
Colorado House of Representatives
Named as House prime sponsor on the official bill record.
Colorado Family Action
Robin Paterson read Ellis’s testimony supporting SB19-048. The hearing summary describes the testimony as arguing that filtering software does not work.
Colorado Christian University
Testified in support of SB19-048 representing Colorado Christian University.
Representing himself at the hearing
Raised First Amendment concerns, the proposal’s reach, and safeguards already used to filter material. The hearing record spells his surname La Rue.
Colorado Association of Libraries
Opposed SB19-048, stressing that school districts were already required to filter databases.
Colorado school leadership associations
Represented the Colorado Association of School Executives, Colorado Association of School Boards, and Rural Alliance. Opposed the bill over local control, liability, and its reach.
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Opposed SB19-048 and raised concerns about its definitions.
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
Published the NCOSE statement targeting EBSCO and asking parents to investigate school subscriptions.
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
Signed NCOSE’s reply rejecting EBSCO’s retraction demand while acknowledging changes to some article wording.
Venable LLP / EBSCO Information Services
Signed the letter disputing NCOSE’s claims and demanding a retraction. His represented client is identified in that letter.
The undated coalition strategy credits Colorado’s Patersons with prompting its Utah effort. Peck’s October 2018 article also says hearing about Colorado led her to search Utah databases.
Both are identified with the Empowered Families Coalition in the October 1, 2018 minutes; Boyack is also identified as FWI executive director.
The October 10, 2018 complaint lists both attorneys as counsel for PINE.
Peck’s April 2021 retrospective says she contacted Weiler about her findings in fall 2018.
UETN’s chronology says Weiler forwarded the September 20 complaint to recipients including Timothy and it reached staff that evening.
The 2021 enrolled HB38 names Seegmiller chief sponsor and Weiler Senate sponsor.
The two ULA leaders co-signed the October 2018 restoration statement. Bromberg also describes working with Cummings on the effort.
The January 23, 2019 hearing record says Paterson read Ellis’s testimony on behalf of Colorado Family Action.
The official SB19-048 record names them as Senate and House prime sponsors in 2019.
EBSCO’s counsel sent the October 14, 2020 demand to Bull; Bull’s October 30 response was addressed to Baldridge.