[CASL-L] Fwd: [stateifc] Connecticut Four Librarians Stand Again Against FBI Overreach

[Shelley Stedman]

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Hello CASL List members:
Just in case you have not seen this article which was published in the Hartford Courant, it was sent to CASL  and all of the States via their  Intellectual Freedom Chairs from the Office for Intellectual Freedom of ALA.

If you are observing this holiday, I wish you peace and many blessings.
Shelley Stedman


From: Deborah Caldwell-Stone <dstone at ala.org<mailto:dstone at ala.org>>
Subject: [stateifc] Connecticut Four Librarians Stand Again Against FBI Overreach
Date: September 28, 2016 at 7:36:40 AM EDT
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“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<http://www.ala.org/offices/oif>
American Library Association<x-msg://86/ala.org>
Freedom to Read Foundation<x-msg://86/ftrf.org>
50 East Huron, Chicago, IL  60611
800-545-2433 x 4224
Libraries Transform<http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/>!

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