<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/judiciary-committee-eenators-face-historic-ecpa-vote/">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/judiciary-committee-eenators-face-historic-ecpa-vote/</a><br><br><br><h1 class="" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;font-weight:normal;font-family:BebasNeueRegular,arial,Georgia,serif;font-size:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span itemprop="name" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Judiciary Committee Senators face historic “E-Privacy” protection vote</span></h1><p class="" style="padding:0px 0px 5px;margin:7px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(242,242,242);color:rgb(170,170,170);font-size:11.05px;font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">Posted by:<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/adameisgrau/" title="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Adam Eisgrau</a></span><span class=""> </span><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">May 24, 2016</span>  <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">in<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/legislation/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Legislation</a>,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/privacy-surveillance/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Privacy & Surveillance</a></span></p><div class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">More good news could be in the offing for reform of ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) recently (and pleasantly) surprised reform proponents by calendaring a Committee vote on the issue now likely to take place this coming Thursday morning, May 26th.  The Committee, it is hoped, will take up and pass<span class=""> </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/699/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">H.R. 699, the Email Privacy Act</a>, which was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives, as reported in<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/ecpa-reform-unanimously-clears-house-senate-fate-uncertain/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">District Dispatch</a>, barely three weeks ago.  (A similar but not identical Senate bill co-authored by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy [D-VT],<span class=""> </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/356" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">S. 356</a>, also could be called up and acted upon.)</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Either bill finally would update ECPA in the way most glaringly needed: to virtually always require the government to get a standard, judicially-approved search warrant based upon probable cause to acquire the full content of an individual’s emails, texts, tweets, cloud-based files or other electronic communications. No matter which is considered, however, there remains a significant risk that, on Thursday, the bill’s opponents will try to dramatically weaken that core reform by exempting certain agencies (like the IRS and SEC) from the new warrant requirement, and/or by providing dangerous exceptions to law enforcement and security agencies acting in overbroadly defined “emergency” circumstances.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Earlier today, ALA joined a<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/advleg/federallegislation/05-24-16%20Coalition%20Letter%20to%20Senate%20Judiciary%20Committee%20Urging%20the%20Committee%20to%20Pass%20the%20Email%20Privacy%20Act%20%28H.R.699%29.pdf" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">new joint letter</a><span class=""> </span>signed by nearly 65 of its public and sector coalition partners calling on Senators Grassley and Leahy to take up and pass H.R. 699 as approved by the House: in other words “without any [such] amendments that would weaken the protections afforded by the bill” ultimately approved by 419 of the 435 House Members.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Now is the time to tell the Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that almost 30 years has been much too long to wait for real ECPA reform. Please go to<span class=""> </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">ALA’s Legislative Action Center</a><span class=""> </span>to email to your Senate Judiciary Senator now!</p></div><br><br><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/judiciary-committee-eenators-face-historic-ecpa-vote/">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/judiciary-committee-eenators-face-historic-ecpa-vote/</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></i></a></div>
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