LIBRARY ASSOC. WINS !! JUSTICE DEPT. BACKS DOWN ON DESTROYING RULE BOOKS,
DENYING PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW
From:"A Voice for Children"
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: LIBRARY ASSOC. WINS !! JUSTICE DEPT. BACKS DOWN ON DESTROYING RULE
BOOKS, DENYING PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW
GOOD that the public exposure worked.... NOTE that the criminals in
the
"Justice" Dept. are doing these things in the first place. People
must
see these government agencies ARE the enemy , violating the Public
Trust.....
here we see again WATCHING STOPS THEM COLD - THEY CANNOT DEFEND WHAT THEY
ARE DOING... YOU HAVE TO CONFRONT THEM IN COURTS, PUBLICLY, ON THE
RECORD..... HERE THEY BACKED DOWN BECAUSE THEY ARE CAUGHT AND CANNOT
DEFEND THEMSELVES AND WE ARE ALL WATCHING.....
From:
carole11@wi.rr.com
Contact: Patrice McDermott, Deputy Director
pmcdermott@alawash.org
202-628-8410 x. 209
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August 2, 2004
For Immediate Release
ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction request
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the
Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the
Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository
libraries
to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing
forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents
are
"training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice
staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with
this
categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal
statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there
will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy
government information.
Michael Gorman, President-Elect of the American Library Association, said,
"We had concerns about the Department of Justice request to destroy
documents that have been in the public domain for four years.
To obtain
an official rationale from the Department of Justice about the nature of
these public documents, the American Library Association submitted a Freedom
of
Information Act (FOIA) request for the withdrawn materials, which will now
be moot." Carol Brey-Casiano, President of the American Library
Association added, "Our only interest in this issue is that we want to
ensure that public documents remain available to the public."
The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how
citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the
government during an investigation. The documents that were to be removed
and
destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal
Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture
and
money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act
of
2000
(CAFRA).
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