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From cjonline.com:
Man sentenced in obscenity case
For the next two years, a former parochial school teacher in Wichita will have the government watching his every move on the Internet, as part of a plea agreement in a rare federal obscenity case against him.
Jeffrey Klazura, 30, was sentenced for possessing two pictures of adult women posing nude on his home computer.
He was ordered to provide passwords to the government. And federal probation officers can check his computer at any time, or attach software to let them watch his online activity. If he goes to the wrong site, he could be sentenced to prison.
"I'm not familiar with many, if any, prosecutions involving obscenity when the subject is an adult women. That's virtually unheard of," Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday.
A New York-based nonprofit national interfaith organization called Morality in Media Inc. found only seven prosecutions nationwide under any U.S. obscenity law in 2001, the most recent year available. The group also found that many states, including Kansas, hadn't prosecuted a single obscenity case in the years since 1993.
Klazura, who was sentenced earlier this month, got into trouble when he asked a Yahoo photo service to convert pictures of young-looking females from electronic form to photo prints, according to court documents filed by the U.S. Postal Service.
Yahoo notified authorities. After Yahoo told Klazura in an e-mail that the pictures could be illegal, he immediately canceled his order, court records show. But the postal inspector got permission from federal authorities to deliver Klazura's canceled order, leading to his arrest and giving authorities the right to search his home computer.
Klazura was charged with child pornography because the females in some of the photographs delivered to his home looked young. Their ages weren't established in court documents.
After Klazura's lawyer, Dan Monnat, accused the government of trapping Klazura into a criminal action, the U.S. attorney offered a plea for the lesser obscenity charges, stemming from the two pictures of nude adult women found on his home computer.
Man sentenced in obscenity case
For the next two years, a former parochial school teacher in Wichita will have the government watching his every move on the Internet, as part of a plea agreement in a rare federal obscenity case against him.
Jeffrey Klazura, 30, was sentenced for possessing two pictures of adult women posing nude on his home computer.
He was ordered to provide passwords to the government. And federal probation officers can check his computer at any time, or attach software to let them watch his online activity. If he goes to the wrong site, he could be sentenced to prison.
"I'm not familiar with many, if any, prosecutions involving obscenity when the subject is an adult women. That's virtually unheard of," Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday.
A New York-based nonprofit national interfaith organization called Morality in Media Inc. found only seven prosecutions nationwide under any U.S. obscenity law in 2001, the most recent year available. The group also found that many states, including Kansas, hadn't prosecuted a single obscenity case in the years since 1993.
Klazura, who was sentenced earlier this month, got into trouble when he asked a Yahoo photo service to convert pictures of young-looking females from electronic form to photo prints, according to court documents filed by the U.S. Postal Service.
Yahoo notified authorities. After Yahoo told Klazura in an e-mail that the pictures could be illegal, he immediately canceled his order, court records show. But the postal inspector got permission from federal authorities to deliver Klazura's canceled order, leading to his arrest and giving authorities the right to search his home computer.
Klazura was charged with child pornography because the females in some of the photographs delivered to his home looked young. Their ages weren't established in court documents.
After Klazura's lawyer, Dan Monnat, accused the government of trapping Klazura into a criminal action, the U.S. attorney offered a plea for the lesser obscenity charges, stemming from the two pictures of nude adult women found on his home computer.
