[Libs-Or] Fwd: [District Dispatch] PATRIOT Act reader privacy Amendment #524 fails in House vote

[Diedre Conkling]

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From: "Jenni Terry" <jterry at alawash.org>
Date: Feb 18, 2011 1:33 PM
Subject: [District Dispatch] PATRIOT Act reader privacy Amendment #524 fails
in House vote
To: <jterry at alawash.org>

District Dispatch has posted a new item, 'PATRIOT Act reader privacy
Amendment
#524 fails in House vote'

The House has defeated in a 196 “yeas” to 232 “nays” vote this afternoon
the Conyers-Paul-Nadler-Jones Amendment, # 524 that would have improved
reader
privacy protections in Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act.  This amendment
could have returned the legal standard for law enforcement to obtain library
and
bookstore records to require a warrant [...]

You may view the latest post at
http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5690

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Best regards,
Jenni Terry
jterry at alawash.org
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