In an exclusive KFOX report, a local man said he is shocked that there are no privacy screens on some El Paso Public Library computers, making it easy for anyone, even children, to see inappropriate material.

Oscar Leyva and his family are like many in El Paso who don't have access to the Internet at their home. Instead, they go to an El Paso Public Library branch to use the computers there. It's something Leyva said he regrets doing.

"There was a man sitting there, and at first I saw... I walked in, and I saw he was watching something. I didn't know what it was, but then I took a look at it and he was watching pornography," Leyva said.

The man was using a computer everyone in the lab could see, including Leyva and his 3-year-old son.

"I saw that he was watching females and that he was watching more detail like X-rated hard-core pornography," Leyva said.

Leyva said he immediately reported what he saw to library workers, who couldn't do anything about it.

"The answer that the library people gave us -- I mean, I was shocked. I couldn't believe that they weren't able to do anything about it," Leyva said.

The rules and regulations when using a computer inside an El Paso library is simply showing a picture ID and signing in at the information desk. Librarians said there are no restrictions on what information you access on the Internet.

"In fact, there are privacy laws in this state that protect people's use to library resources to a certain extent. In that regard, we do not monitor what people are looking at on the computer," said Carol Brey-Casiano, director of El Paso Public Libraries.

Leyva believes there is still no reason anyone should be able to access pornography at a library.

"That's not acceptable. Opening all of these brand-new libraries with our taxes and everything, there has to be some kind of software that blocks that," Leyva said.

"Yes, people may find things that are offensive on the computer, but on the other hand we believe that there are many, many positive sites," Brey-Casiano said.

Brey-Casaino said the new library on Pebble Hills, which Leyva and his family visited, does not have privacy screens, which is why he could see the Web site.

The library director said all of the computers in the main library or the other branches have recessed screens that are inside of desks, at which you have to look down.

There are also privacy screens, which means you can see the screen only if you are looking at it head-on.

She said privacy screens have been ordered or will be ordered for the new library on Pebble Hills.