In a letter to the Department of Corrections, the MCLU argued that the DOC's current Internet policy is not reasonably related to lgitimate pehological intereests. The MCLU was contacted by several inmates affected by the policy. One inmate was forced to tell his family that they could no longer maintain a website asserting his innocence and providing information about his legal defense because they were technically providing him with third party access to the internet. Another inmate was forced to remove an internet pen pal ad (shich he sighned up and paid for through the U.S. mail), despite a general prison policy allowing such ads in print media. Under the jpolicy, and inmate who wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper that posts its content online would be subject to discipline. MOreover, inmates whose casess are posted online via the Minnesota Supremej Court website would be in violation of the policy. In their letter, they argued that the DOC's ligitimate safety and security concerns surronding inmate third party Internet access could be more easily addressed through existing visitation, telephone, and mail policies, because these are the only means by which inmates could gain third party Internet access.