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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">News from the American Library Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Deputy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">60 S. High Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron, OH 44326<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Visit us on the Web at</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://www.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://www.akronlibrary.org</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">or on our Mobile Site at</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://m.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://m.akronlibrary.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich
individual, family, and community life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ALA Washington Office [mailto:districtdispatch@alawash.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2015 1:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hickson-Stevenson, Pamela<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Signal the Senate: Speak Out Against PATRIOT Act Extension<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Last week, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed (338 – 88) the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 (H.R. 2048): the first real reform of the USA PATRIOT Act in well over a decade. The bill will finally end the "bulk collection" of Americans' library, phone
and many other personal records under Section 215 (a.k.a. the "library provision") of the PATRIOT Act and also will for the first time enable meaningful legal challenge of the FBI's National Security Letters and the gag orders that accompany them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But to become law, H.R. 2048 also has to clear the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wants to just extend the current privacy-invasive law for five years without any changes at all. If he can't do that, Senator McConnell and other
"surveillance hawks" want to relieve public pressure on the Senate by passing a short-term extension of current law without reforms so that they can amend the "USA FREEDOM Act later to make it toothless (like the House did last year) or to add awful new "poison
pill" provisions that would cause groups like ALA and many major corporations to withdraw support of an otherwise positive bill.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Congress is scheduled to leave town this Thursday for a Memorial Day recess that will extend beyond the June 1 expiration of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, so this week will likely decide the fate of the broadest NSA reform in 14 years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We need you to let Congress know that NSA reform is important and necessary. Contact the offices of both your Senators -- and your Representative in the House -- TODAY. Please tell them:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Senators: Pass H.R. 2048 (or its twin, S. 1123) without any weakening amendments AND immediately publicly oppose any extension of the PATRIOT Act beyond June 1, no matter how short.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Representative: Speak out publically today against extension of the PATRIOT ACT for any period of time without real reform. Senators need to hear loud and clear that even a short-term extension of the PATRIOT Act will be "DOA" in the House, and thus pointless
to pass.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p>With Section 215's expiration date and a Congressional recess looming, NOW is the critical time to push for passage of the USA FREEDOM Act. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"> <a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=101134&ep=AAAAC2Flc0NpcGhlcjAxuB5iQO9JgQ81jKXHl6Im6Ih4ImU8wFon8jYMaGaQrdLz6OFRpFVgEh7SioZcoDcFmaFDXAPPWd57gNkuo7hBFaAVvN_BNri8vh-t-GQ6y-s&lp=0">Call
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our post on District Dispatch</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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