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As vice president of an electrical consulting company in the early 1990s, Sue McNutt paid careful attention to the emerging Internet. It didn't take long to realize that the new medium had the potential for both good and evil.

Knowing her children's public school system would soon catch this wave, McNutt approached the administration in 1995 about developing an acceptable-use policy for the Internet. She began working with the media technology department, but "politics" got in the way, and the administration didn't support her efforts.

Not long after, the superintendent of the Omaha, Nebraska, public schools tried to get his own guidelines passed as a school board meeting wound down. McNutt happened to be there. At 1:30 a.m. she challenged the superintendent's policy, which did not include the use of filters, programs designed to block pornographic Web sites.

"Everybody was in shock. The school board was unaware of what the administration was doing," she said.

The guidelines were not passed that night; nonetheless, McNutt's job was just beginning. In the coming months, she made many calls and attended 50 meetings. She was bolstered by prayer support from family, friends, and members of her church.

Eventually, McNutt wrote a policy independently, which included the use of filters. It was approved unanimously by the 12-member school board. Following their lead, Nebraska's state educational service group decided to make filtering available to all public schools.

"It was a battle, but, boy, it was a nice victory at the end," McNutt said.

She and her husband Ed, along with their two children, recently moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where Sue hopes to set up an office for Enough is Enough, an organization that fights child pornography on the Web. With an estimated 100,000 commercial porn sites out there, McNutt says parents should be educated about the Internet and about their local school policies on access.

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