An Anonymous Patron submitted This sacbee.com Story on what some libraries are doing in response to PATRIOT.
California State University has a simple red binder labeled “Search Warrant Procedures.”
Inside are copies detailing exactly how library workers are to respond if the FBI shows up asking for information about the reading habits of library patrons.
In Santa Monica this summer, the city libraries posted signs: “Attention library patrons: The FBI has the right to obtain a court order to access any records we have of your transactions in the library, a right given to them by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.”
South Pasadena has done the same, as has Santa Cruz. In Seattle, librarians hand out bookmarks warning patrons that their reading habits may fall into the hands of federal agents.
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