Bridget Bittman no longer employed at Orland Park Public Library –

Good riddance!

Bridget Bittman was (and likely still is) an effective public relations expert for the American Library Association’s “Office for Intellectual Freedom” in nearby Chicago to whom she was beholden. In particular, she successfully fended off almost two years of effort to expose the coverup of child p0rnography at the Orland Park Public Library that is available per the diktat of the ALA (that says only judges may identify what is child p0rn, not librarians), and has been rewarded repeatedly for her effectively defending “intellectual freedom.” One of her rewards was to be a trainer for ALA on how librarians and library trustees can thwart whistleblowers attempting to investigate incidents of child p0rn viewing. At the training she made homophobic remarks about the whistleblowers because one is gay, but, being a true public relations expert for ALA, was selected anyway for more ALA training on the same topic. She was so successful in getting away with this homophobia that ALA itself ordered the destruction of all evidence that would expose her for her homophobia.
Similarly, ALA’s leading expert on Internet filtering is a woman who made false claims about a man being a sexual predator, helped destroy his career over the course of about a year, then refused to apologize like the two other accusers did. She also trained librarians that libraries destroy computer Internet browsing history precisely to thwart police investigations.
No coincidence, OPPL also destroys public records, as the child p0rn incident report reveals, also precisely to thwart police investigations. Perhaps now that Bridget Bittman is gone, OPPL should consider keeping those public records instead of destroying them against the law but in compliance with ALA diktat. To this date OPPL has done absolutely nothing about the child p0rn viewer or about its covering up that crime where Bridget Bittman’s excellent public relations skills were key in ensuring media published for years that the whistleblowers were the problem, not the library’s ALA-induced pro-child p0rn policy and subsequent coverup.
So I am certain Bridget Bittman’s particular skill set and experience with ALA will enable her to have a bright future with ALA. ALA’s OIF has hired others who promote its interests, so I am certain Bridget Bittman will fare very well with ALA, potentially the “great nonprofit” she references, and I wish her good luck there or in any similar organization that may wish to hire such an expert. Working with ALA will help keep her activities further hidden from public eyes, so her particular skills will likely flourish.
Good luck, Bridget Bittman!