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Santa Cruz Librarians Fight Patriot Act

A headline from today’s New York Times states, Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers. This article provides further details to a previous posting on the stance of public librarians in Santa Cruz County against provisions of the Patriot Act that permit the FBI to access patron data. The librarians are using various methods to protect patron privacy, including posting signs, online statements and handing out flyers about the Patriot Act, as well as shredding public access Internet logs and notes made during the course of reference interviews, on a daily basis.

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