Utah monitoring challenges campaign accounts
October 2018–February 2022 · Utah; national correspondence
On October 12, 2018, UETN staff reported the results of 12 days of testing. They searched terms from public complaints, media reports and the Colorado parents' action against EBSCO, and could not reproduce those results in Utah's filtered K–12 service.
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Staff did find one article containing a cartoon line drawing of breasts and genitals and asked for it to be filtered. The report says EBSCO complied immediately.
On October 17, 2018, the Utah Educational Library Media Association (UELMA) asked UETN to restore EBSCO. It argued that losing research resources hurt students' information skills and advanced coursework.
UETN's January 2019 monitoring report records zero complaints and zero outstanding tickets. EBSCO's report for October through December 2020 says all six support tickets were closed and none concerned inappropriate content. UETN's February 11, 2022 monitoring item says reports showed no issues of concern.
On October 14, 2020, EBSCO's lawyer demanded that NCOSE retract a September article. NCOSE's October 30, 2020 reply stood by its campaign, changed some wording, and described Utah access as still blocked. Utah's board restoration record and later monitoring reports show that description was out of date.
Documented
Who and what is involved
- Institutions
- UETN; school-library professional bodies
- People and recorded roles
- Peter Bromberg; Rebekah Cummings; UETN staff; EBSCO counsel
- Organizations, bodies and vendors
- UELMA; ULA; UETN; EBSCO; NCOSE
- Laws, rules and procedures
- Monitoring motions; provider-compliance reporting
- Products and information systems
- EBSCO age filters and excluded terms
Sources (13)
- D025UETN testing update, October 12 (opens in a new window)
- D026Saved PDF: UETN testing update, October 12 (opens in a new window)
- D027UELMA statement, October 17 (opens in a new window)
- D028Saved PDF: UELMA statement, October 17 (opens in a new window)
- D029January 2019 EBSCO report (opens in a new window)
- D030Saved PDF: January 2019 EBSCO report (opens in a new window)
- D031EBSCO quarterly report, October–December 2020 (opens in a new window)
- D032Saved PDF: EBSCO quarterly report, October–December 2020 (opens in a new window)
- D033UETN annual report to the Education Interim Committee (opens in a new window)
- D034Saved PDF: UETN annual report to the Education Interim Committee (opens in a new window)
- D035UETN February 11, 2022 EBSCO Monitoring item (opens in a new window)
- D036EBSCO counsel letter, PDF pages 19–22 (opens in a new window)
- D037Saved PDF: EBSCO counsel letter, PDF pages 19–22 (opens in a new window)
Earlier research pages
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2018-testing
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2018-librarians-response
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2019-monitoring
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2020-quarterly-monitoring
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2021-no-incidents
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-2022-monitoring
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-ebsco-2020-retraction-demand
- EBSCO chronology, section detail-ncose-2020-reply
Open question
What was tested, with which profiles, and what periods are not covered?