“Librarians Win as U.S. Relents on Secrecy Law”
Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2006
Due to recent changes in the U.S.A. Patriot Act, a librarian who was
ordered to turn over library records by a National Security Letter
(NSL) may soon be identified. Under the previous version of the Act,
recipients of NSLs were prohibited from identifying themselves. The
American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of a Connecticut library
served with an NSL last September. Federal prosecutors have decided to
drop an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit in New York, to overturn an order allowing the library and
librarian to be identified. Read more here. [External link to nytimes.com, may require free registration to access story.]