[Peace-discuss] Fwd: ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act, ILA Update # 4, 22 April 2003

[Lisa Chason]

Fwd: ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act, ILAgo librarians!
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    2003 ILA Update # 4

    NEWS RELEASE

    For immediate release            From:  Robert P. Doyle
    Tuesday, 22 April 2003            Illinois Library Association
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    ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act
    Illinois is the fifteenth state* to adopt a resolution regarding the USA PATRIOT Act.  The resolution states, in part, that "Illinois Library Association considers sections of the USA PATRIOT Act to be a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users and urges the United States Congress to:

    1)      provide active oversight of the implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act and other related measures, and the revised U.S. Attorney General Guidelines to the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

    2)    hold hearings to determine the extent of the surveillance on library users and their communities; and
     
    3)        amend or change the sections of these laws and the guidelines that threaten or abridge the rights of inquiry and free expression."

    Illinois Library Association affirms and upholds efforts of all libraries to adopt and implement patron privacy and record retention policies that affirm that "the collection of personally identifiable information should only be a matter of routine or policy when necessary for the fulfillment of the mission of the library."  The association further urges librarians everywhere to defend and support user privacy and free and open access to knowledge and information.  Finally, the association opposes any use of governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of knowledge and information or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiry.

    On Tuesday, 13 May 2003, a delegation from the Illinois Library Association will be speaking with our elected officials in Washington, D.C.  The delegation will be delivering a number of key library messages to our elected officials, including this recently adopted resolution regarding the USA PATRIOT Act.  Traditionally, the Illinois delegation to National Library Legislative Day is the largest delegation in the nation.  To register for this event, the form is available at www.ila.org/events/regforms/legis_day.pdf or the February 2003 ILA Reporter, pages 31-32.

    For further information on the USA PATRIOT Act, see the April 2003 ILA Reporter, pages 14-15 or Privacy & Confidentiality in Libraries, www.ila.org/advocacy/privacy.htm.  The full text of the resolution is available on the ILA Web site at www.ila.org/advocacy.

    *  According to the ALA Web site, to date, the following state library associations have passed resolutions regarding the USA PATRIOT Act:  California (February 12), Connecticut (February 13), Georgia (February 13), Kansas (January 31), Minnesota (February 21), Missouri (February 28), New Hampshire (February 19), New Mexico (January 31), New York (February 6), Texas (February 13), Vermont (October 21), Virginia (February 7), Washington (February 14), and Wisconsin (February 21). 

    This list was compiled from the ALA Web site http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=IF_Resolutions&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13887

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    Robert P. Doyle
    Illinois Library Association
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    Chicago, IL  60610-4306
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