Nov 12, 2009 9:31 am US/Eastern
Md. University System Votes Against Porn Policy
ADELPHI, Md. (AP) ―
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The Board of Regents voted against creating a porn policy Wednesday, explaining that it would be impossible to enforce and would provoke costly free-speech lawsuits.
CBS
The University System of Maryland is defying a legislative call to regulate pornography on campus.
The Board of Regents voted against creating a policy Wednesday, explaining that it would be impossible to enforce and would provoke costly free-speech lawsuits.
The General Assembly passed a nonbinding resolution telling the university system to come up with a policy by Dec. 1, but no potential penalties were specified. The move was prompted by a screening of a pornographic movie planned earlier this year at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Researchers found that the system would be the nation's first higher education entity to adopt such rules and decided it would be legally indefensible.
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