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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 11-14, 2005 The Park Record A-16 OFFICE Groups sue to overturn porn block Display & Retail Space For Lease Reception Center For Rent SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Two civil liberties groups sued Utah on Thursday for forcing Internet service providers to provide customers with software fillers that block pornographic Web sites. The Washington D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology cited constitutional and practical objections to the law enacted by Gov. Jon Huntsman in March. The center successfully challenged a similar Pennsylvania law thai, in practice, blocked Internet surfers from visiting innocent Web sites located in same electronic neighborhoods as pornographic sites. Pennsylvania's law was struck down by a federal court in 2004. The Utah chapter of the American 210 East Main St., Midway, Utah • Suite finished to suit • Elevator for easy access Civil Liberties Union joined the suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court here. Utah legislators argue they made House Bill 260 bulletproof by requiring ISPs to only offer customers a way to block pornographic Web sites, without demanding the companies to do the blocking themselves. But John Morris, a staff attorney for Center for Democracy and Technology, said "even making it an obligation to hand out filtering software violates the commerce clause" of the Constitution. Internet service providers say Utah's law added nothing new in the fight against pornography because many of them already offer software filters and government intervention TOP 80 NEW RESTAURANTS IN THE WORLD! SALT LAKE CITY (AP) mobilized Reserve and Guard Although the number of Reserve troops has decreased by 17 perand Guard units called to active cent nationally, but Utah's continduty is down nationally, it is up in gent of active-duty citizen soldiers Utah. increased by 17 percent. Since March 9, the number of "We're very busy," said Utah National Guard spokesman Maj. Hank Mclntire. "We have to make 1 OP COND£ NAST TRAVELER'S sure we provide the Army and the Air Force with whatever requireOPEN FRIDAY MAY 27TH ments they give to us." Defense Department officials have admitted having trouble recruiting and retaining personnel in the past year. But Utah Guard and Reserve units are not experiencing the same problems with operational H A B AHII\M;I-H SAKI -ilTAMni SI.A BASS. IN! I IlvlJ \STllI Aiiui \ h M A N C I I m i m i m i l ' %'mi n m n.A\'t)tts m- ciNCCft AND cinViJ.'flRUsiir. UOAVII M VICIHAlU.I.-i AMI A 1IAI-VVMH I!,UIY\KI W:in:i;i IUN. VtTIII CAM.It: A M I IlLMK HI-WN 1'ViTK, * TENDERLOIN OF BEEF ( IM.ATINi: I I S OWN NATMtAI. HUOIII * GRILLED PORK CHOPS IAI D I I M I ( i i . M . i : , Si-iivRii w i i n A S I A N S I n I M I witM l.itiMM su-fAci-:. ru;< \SM l'l All. liiisiMAiiv I»KMI-I:I u:i-\ rni»i'i-;ii v m it I»OIAIO V M I Asi'AitAcrs m S I M P S . COCONUT CRUSTED TOFU * 111)111) MASCO UUTNKYA K«CDRI'til> BV C JUSI'Y r i ( l l i i ) i O C O N I . 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They also insist the most recent reduction in reserve forces is "only temporary." "They'll get replaced," Army spokesman Lt. Col. Carl Ey told The Salt Lake Tribune. Ey said about 14,800 Army National Guard me in be rs and reservists came upon the maximum 564-day deployment and were sent home. He said the drawback was nol indicative of a decision to pull Guard and Reserve members out of Iraq and Afghanistan. WOK SEARED DIVER SCALLOPS *" FREE STYLE SEA BASS \ M l I'ANKO. VI II II \N i\\\,\K parents can use to keep their children from viewing pornographic Web sites. He doubted the state could do any better identifying porn sites and said it would only make matters worse by snaring innocent sites. 'Hie Utah representative who sponsored the law. Rep. John Dougall, R-Highland, has said parents can be overwhelmed by advancing technology, while children can be "much more savvy" about navigating the Web. Government has a legitimate interest in helping parents control Ihcir children's Internet browsing, Dougall argued when the Utah Legislature voted 95-9 to approve the law. Increasing number of Utah reservists called up For information, call (801) 224-1642 WE'RE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER! RATED AS can only make matters worse. Utah's law requires ISPs lo incorporate Web sites continually identified by the state attorney general's office as pornographic, even if that list makes a casualty of benign sites sharing the same Internet protocol address - the numerical codes that send people to servers hosting multiple Web sites. The law forces the attorney generals office to make arbitrary decisions about what sites should be on the blackout list, Pete Ashdown. president of Salt Lake-based Internet service provider XMission. has said. Ashdown said the market already has responded with filters An IS^o Gratuity will be added • Limit 2 COUDODS Per Table' Expires June 30,2005 2nd Level Main St. Mall - 333 Main Street, Park City chefs) Call 645-SAKE (7253) for reservations 649-CHEF (2433) pcprrvatechefs.com LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC ON FRIDAY & SATURDAY Flat income tax recommended SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A task force subcommittee has recommended a flat income tax with no state deductions - not even for charitable contributions, an idea that is opposed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The proposal calls for 4 percent tax on the federal adjusted gross income of all families. The recommendation came out of the income tax subcommittee of the Legislatures Tax Reform Task Force on Wednesday. 'Hie task force is working on an overhaul of the state s entire tax system from sales lo property tax. Keith Prcscott, a tax accountant who helped formulate former Gov. Olcnc Walkers initial lax reform proposal, said. "We need lo do something. What we have is losing its integrity." The system has "BandAids upon Band-Aids," he said, because "We keep abandoning principles to raise rates." "You have sold me," Rep. Greg . .2006 B9 Tribeca Has Arrived! Hughes told Prcscott and moved to send the flat lax proposal to the full task force. The flat tax form, with only half a dozen lines for financial information, could fit on a postcard. "It's a very, very elegant system," Prescott said. A study of selected 2002 tax returns indicated thai a switch from the existing graduated rates to flat tax would make no difference or, in many cases, reduce the total tax a family pays, Prescoll said. "It is very possible to make this system work without hurting anyone." The building and real estate industry would likely be among opponents to elimination of homoownership deductions. Prescott argued that studies have found no evidence that eliminating the deductions affects the housing market. The Mormon church already has made clear its opposition to an elimination of charitable deduction. "For the overall good of the citizenry, the state tax system should continue to provide lax deductions for charitable giving - including religious contributions." the church said in a statement last month. "Bam! We were in deep water immediately," Prescolt said of the church's statement. Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, cochairman of the task force and chairman of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, believes the flat tax will nol hurl church tithing. "There is no evidence (in states and nations with fiat tax systems) that it makes a difference to giving," he told The Salt Lake Tribune. Bramble was quoted in a copyright slory in the Dcseret Morning News as saying that while the church's "•input is appropriate as with any organizations input, there may be some difference in the level of influence" over whal he described as an administrative rather than moral Issue. 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