print email comment close The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act on Free Expression URL: http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/patriotact.html Description: This analysis argues that "libraries remain more important than ever to ensuring the right of every individual to hold and express opinions and to seek and receive information. ... But just as the public is exercising its right to receive information and ideas ... in order to understand the events of the day, government is threatening these very liberties." Written for the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) by Nancy Kranich, past president, American Library Association. Author: Kranich, Nancy Publisher: Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Freedom of speech Libraries and state -- United States Privacy, Right of LII Database Information: Record 448 created by Karen Schneider on 05/13/2003 Last modification on 04/10/2007 Published: 05/13/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/448