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27| O akville B eaver | T hursday,June 14,2018 insidehalton.com NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE ANDNIGHT CONSTRUCTION Wastewater Main Replacement onThird Line from Rebecca Street to 150mNorth, Town of Oakville Contract Number: S-3124-17 Scheduled Start Date: June 2018 Scheduled Completion Date: July 2018 Project Manager: Martin Larkin 905-825-6000, ext. 7614 Martin.Larkin@halton.ca 06 14 18 REBECCA ST TH IR D LI N E SPEERS RD LAK ES HO RE RD W B R O N TE R D FO U R TH LI N E LAKE ONTARIO PR-3124 DETOUR ROUTE As part of the ongoing construction work on Third Line, crews will be working at night to install new wastewater main at the intersection of Third Line and Rebecca Street. Lane restrictions and intersection closure will be necessary to complete this work. The work is scheduled to take place nightly between the hours of 7:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. fromMonday, June 11, 2018 to Friday, June 22, 2018 (inclusive). 04 26 18 Gary Carr Regional Chair Meetings at Halton Region, 1151 Bronte Rd., Oakville, L6M 3L1 Visit halton.ca/meetings for full schedule.for full schedule.f June 20 9:30 a.m. Regional Council The Halton Region Community Investment Fund (HRCIF) provides funding to non-profit social service and community health initiatives that support the health, safety and well-being of Halton residents. This includes programs that address mental health, prevent homelessness, support older adults, children and youth, and enhance food security. Since 2012, the number of projects funded has more than doubled, and the amount of funding has increased from $702,691 to over $2.3 million. Halton Region recently released its first-ever HRCIF Impact Report that demonstrates HRCIF's impact in the community. To learn more, visit halton.ca/investmentfund or call 311. Halton Region supports community programs thatmake a difference When it comes to inter- net access on school grounds, the Halton Dis- trict School Board has made a recent decision to try to keep things a little more PG across the net- work. The board is currently working with a vendor on a firewall and a filter, whichfirewall and a filter, whichf will block entry to porno- graphic sites to anyone who accesses the board's WiFi or hardwire network. A few years ago, the board made a decision to add the filter for students in kindergarten to grade 6 only, as the technology be- ing used at the time made it impossible to differentiate between pornographic websites and other sites dedicated to topics such as gender identity and sexu- ality, which may be benefi- cial for older students to access, superintendent Gord Truffen said, follow- ing the Board of Trustees meeting on June 6. Now, he added, the fil- tering technology has the ability to be much more specific in terms of the types of content it blocks out, which was the decid- ing factor in the board's de- cision to extend the filter across the entire network. He said additional expens- es will not be incurred as a result of the extension. The decision was an- nounced at both the Spe- cial Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) and Board of Trustees meet- ings last week, and was met with mixed senti- ments. At the SEAC meeting on June 5, superintendent Mark Zonneveld told the committee that the deci- sion to extend the filter comes after several in- stances of students access- ing inappropriate sites on school grounds, but also due to occurrences where students innocently type key words into search bars online that, to them, are completely innocuous, but due to the lack of filter, are fed inappropriate content.fed inappropriate content.f But SEAC chair Jason Bartlett remained seem- ingly unconvinced. "The idea that you are protecting the students from anything is delusion-from anything is delusion-f ary and facetious. They have cellphones ... you can't wrap them in a mat- tress and carry them in a soundproof box from home to school and back again," he said. "A little bit now and a little bit then is a lot better than all of it later." Bartlett added that even with the filter in place, those who truly want to get access to porn during school hours will be able to do so. "If you have a half dozen high school students who just simply have to view porn on school grounds, one of them will pull out their phone and turn it into a hotspot," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, there's no effective way of filtering this information out." SEAC vice-chair Denise Nacev said she worries that adding the filter will prevent students from be- ing able to search for infor- mation for school projects that may be a little bit out- side the box, such as an in- vestigation on pornogra- phy addiction - a project she said her son was re- sponsible for, as a student in the International Bacca- laureate program. At the Board of Trustees meeting on June 6, Truffen addressed this issue saying that the amendments to the filter will not impede students' ability to conduct research projects. "That's not what the fil- ter does," he said. "Staff and students will be able to access information on sex- ual orientation, gender identity or digital addition with no problem whatsoev- er." On the Halton District School Board's website, the board uses the filtering venue's definition of por- nography: "Mature con- tent websites (18+ years and over) which present or display sexual acts with the intent to sexually arouse and excite." Truffen added that in the event that a legitimate site is being blocked by the filter, the board has thefilter, the board has thef ability to remove the block and will do so in a timely fashion. fashion. f For further information on HDSB's internet filter- ing, visit https:// www.hdsb.ca/parents/ Pages/Technolo- gy%20%26%20You/Inter- net-Filtering-Frequently- Asked-Questions.aspx. NEWS HDSB to block pornographic sites network wide VERONICA APPIA vappia@metroland.com Halton District School Board's J.W. Singleton Education Centre Graham Paine/METROLAND PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER