Oklahomans for Children and Families

Oklahomans for Children and Families
PredecessorOklahomans Against Pornography
Formation1984; 40 years ago (1984)
TypeNonprofit organization
Legal statusDefunct
PurposeTo lobby against media that the group finds offensive
HeadquartersUnited States
Key people
Paul Wesselhoft

Oklahomans for Children and Families (OCAF) is a nonprofit organization that lobbies against media that the group finds offensive. The group has targeted bookstores, libraries, and comic book shops to stop the distribution of books and magazines it calls pornographic.

OCAF is best known for its lobbying of Congress for passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, demanding that internet service providers stop offering Usenet newsgroups which contain sexual content.[1] OCAF is also the subject of the documentary Banned In Oklahoma (2004) about the organizations efforts, ultimately unsuccessful, to remove the movie The Tin Drum from Oklahoma libraries and movie rental businesses, 18 years after the film's release.[2]

  1. ^ Messemer, Ellen (12 February 1996). "Web responds to new indecency laws". Network World. No. Feb 12, 1996. p. 9.
  2. ^ "Banned in Oklahoma".