(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, used with permission from the Associated Press) In this 2003 photo, children use computers at the public library in the Roxbury neighborhood in Boston. House of Representatives in May 2006, DOPA is designed to protect children from sexual predators online. The proposed federal Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) would require public schools and libraries to block student access to “social networking websites,” such as, raising questions about minors’ First Amendment rights.