Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Lake County Public Library - 01/14/71
Updated 2/27/2025
It is the policy of the Board of Trustees of the Lake County Public Library to insure, so far as possible, the privacy of the users of its service and not to make any inquiries into the purposes for which a user requests information, services or materials.
All library records are for the sole purpose of protecting public property, tracking library use and circulation and are not to be used for any other purpose, either directly or indirectly, nor to identify specific individuals or the types of materials used by any individual library user. Under no circumstances shall the library staff answer to a third party about what any individual is accessing, searching, attending, reading, downloading, using or requesting, by phone, in person or electronic methods, from the library’s collections, materials, online resources or programs.
Furthermore, such records shall not be made available to any agency of local, state or federal government except pursuant to such process, order, or subpoena as may be authorized under the authority of, and pursuant to, local, state or federal law relating to civil, criminal, or administrative discovery procedures or legislative investigatory power.
The Board of Trustees shall resist the issuance or enforcement of any such process, order, or subpoena until such time as a proper showing of good cause has been made in a court of competent jurisdiction. Moreover, any costs incurred by the library in any search through user records, even under a court order, shall be chargeable to the agency demanding the search.
