“We are the four librarians who fought a government gag order a decade ago when FBI agents demanded library records under the Patriot Act and told us, under penalty of criminal prosecution, that we couldn't talk about it. We members of what the media called "the Connecticut Four" haven't reunited in the civil liberties cause. Until now. 

 

Attempts are being made in the U.S. Senate to expand the amount and kinds of information that the government may compel libraries and others to divulge.   This could once again infringe on the civil liberties of library patrons and silence librarians as we were silenced a dozen years ago.”

 

http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-librarians-stand-up-to-patriot-act-again-20160927-story.html

 

 

Deborah Caldwell-Stone

Deputy Director

Office for Intellectual Freedom

American Library Association

Freedom to Read Foundation

50 East Huron, Chicago, IL  60611

800-545-2433 x 4224

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