February 4, 2000

Arizona Rejects Web Filters for Campus Computers

By WENDY R. LEIBOWITZ

The Arizona House of Representatives last week rejected a proposed state law that would have required all government entities, including public universities, to install antipornography filters on computers.

The House killed the bill on a vote of 32 to 20, with 8 members not voting.

Jean McGrath, a Republican who is chairwoman of the Public Institutions & Universities Committee, had sponsored the legislation. "I hear loudly and clearly from my voters

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