There's a journalism aphorism that goes: when a dog bites a man, that is not news. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
Saturday afternoon, after seeing Joseph Clarence Cormier II masturbate to porn at the library, a man went to the Laguna Beach police station to report it. The police and the reportee returned to the library. Cormier was arrested for lewd conduct and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, according to a Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot story,
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Martha Lydick, president of Friends of the Library, tells the Coastline Pilot she thinks the issue must be addressed, because kids could be nearby and see explicit images on the screen. Lydick says she plans to contact the county librarian to suggest that adults be barred from using computers in the children's area if there's not a kid with them.
