<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[alacro-l] NSA reform actually going somewhere</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">May 20, 2014 at 10:14:10 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Good afternoon!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can you share this ALA Washington Office update with your members and library contacts?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">It appears that Congress is going to vote this Thursday on the USA FREEDOM ACT, the bill that will</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">end the government’s bulk collection of telephone data. If you are interested in supporting the bill, please ask them to call or email their legislators in the House of Representatives. Here’s more information on the USA FREEDOM Act:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2014/05/usa-freedom-act-floor-vote-week-call-your-rep-now/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2014/05/usa-freedom-act-floor-vote-week-call-your-rep-now/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jazzy Wright<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Press Officer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">American Library Association, Washington Office<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">(202) 628-8410, ext. 8208 (Office)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">(202) 870-7730 (Cell)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="mailto:jwright@alawash.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">jwright@alawash.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">www.districtdispatch.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;">USA FREEDOM Act floor vote this week; call your rep. now!<o:p></o:p></h1><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The “USA FREEDOM Act” (H.R. 3361) is now poised for a vote by the full House of Representatives on or about Wednesday, May 21st, barely two weeks since a deal was struck by their Chairmen to spring a new version from the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2014/05/house-committees-break-surveillance-reform-bill-logjam-logrolling-begins/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">As reported in District Dispatch on May 8</a>, while the Committees’ new version of H.R. 3361 doesn’t make all of the changes in current law that ALA and other civil liberties advocates believe necessary to fully protect the American public’s privacy, it does take the important step of ending the “bulk collection” of telephone record data so sensationally disclosed in the press over the past year.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before reaching the House floor, however, H.R. 3361, must first be considered by the powerful Rules Committee. Sources say that it is likely to make further changes in the bill, including some that could weaken the public protections afforded by the current Judiciary/Intelligence version of the bill. As always, the Rules Committee also will decide what further amendments to the legislation — if any — will be in order when the bill reaches the floor and all other terms of the floor debate.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Together with 32 of its library and other coalition partners,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://d1ovv0c9tw0h0c.cloudfront.net/files/2014/05/Letter-re-USA-FREEDOM-Rules-Floor-Amendments-051414.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">ALA wrote last week to all key House leaders and Members</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>urging them to strengthen and clarify the Judiciary/Intelligence version of H.R. 3361 in the Rules Committee . . . and endorsing Congressional adoption of critical further privacy protections. The most sweeping of those recommendations are not likely to be accepted and included in the Rules Committee’s version of the bill that the full House will consider. The odds are good, however, that vital corrections urged by ALA and others will be made to assure that, at minimum, the USA FREEDOM Act will truly end the bulk collection of telephone data as Congress says it intends.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>NOW is the time for all ALA members, friends, supporters and privacy protectors of all kinds to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/usafreedomact" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">contact</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>their Representatives in the House!</strong>Use the fast and friendly tools at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/usafreedomact" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">ALA’s Legislative Action Center</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to easily find your Member of Congress and to tell him or her:<o:p></o:p></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">correct and strengthen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">HR 3361<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://d1ovv0c9tw0h0c.cloudfront.net/files/2014/05/Letter-re-USA-FREEDOM-Rules-Floor-Amendments-051414.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">as recommended by ALA and its coalition partners in their joint letter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to assure that it really will end bulk telephone data collection;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>don’t water the bill down</strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by weakening key protections now in the bill; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>pass more legislation later this year</strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to restore the right legal balance between guarding our liberty and our security.</span></li></ol></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>