Data on Molesters
* What a brilliant idea the California attorney general has hatched (“Lungren Urges Molester Data in Libraries,” Jan. 12). Indeed, let us post child-molester data in all the county libraries. The problem is that many libraries are closed, some permanently.
Perhaps this use of libraries for posting photographs and data of child molesters is a better reason to open libraries than to keep them open for the public, including the children, to read books.
Libraries used to be places to read and learn about the world. Now they can assume a new role in our society.
There was a time, too, when libraries were encouraged to report to the FBI on people who read objectionable books. But we defeated that one.
Where is the attorney general leading us?
SYLVIA S. LAMONT
Gardena
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