Man suspected of viewing child porn in library

Blake Ellington

The Sacramento Police Department is investigating a 30-year-old man suspected of looking at child pornography in Sacramento State’s library Nov. 8.

The man, whose name was not released, was not viewing the pornography when three officers approached him.

“This guy has been in the library a lot and has been seen viewing pornography before,” Associate Dean of Public Services Fred Batt said. “When it became child pornography, we had to do something and hand it over to the police.”

The computer that the man was using is in the hands of the High Technology Crime Taskforce with the Sacramento Police Department. They will be doing forensic analysis of the data inside of the computer to see if the man was actually looking at child pornography.

“If it is determined that it did in fact occur, the man will be served with a 311 Penal Code, which is a felony,” said University Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Kelly Clark.

There is currently no filtering process for the computers in the library because of academic reasons.