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E-Learning on the Patriot Act
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:24:52 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:08:39 -0800 To: referencedesk () ATT NET, FOI-L () LISTSERV SYR EDU Subject: Re: E-Learning on the Patriot Act The University of Maryland (notice below) will have someone who is "on detail from the Central Intelligence Agency" teach a course on Government Intrusion vs. Individual Liberty: Understanding the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act. Presumably this instructor is in a position to know fascinating details of how and what the CIA does -- whether he would be allowed to disclose them or not -- however one cannot help but question the objectivity that a CIA employee might bring to a course on this highly controversial topic. It seems to me that students would be far-better served, if the instruction was from a truly independent full-time law professor, or at least team-taught by this CIA employee counterbalanced by another law professor who was a known and ardent advocate for civil liberties protections. --jim Jim Warren; jwarren () well com, technology-related public-policy advocate 345 Swett, Woodside CA 94062 U.S.A.; 650-851-7075; fax/off due to spam-glut [self-inflating puffery: InfoWorld founder; Dr.Dobb's Journal first editor; Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Cal.James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award; Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (1992, its first year); Playboy Foundation Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award (1994); founded the Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conferences; blah blah blah] ==== At 12:56 PM +0000 3/9/03, Cindy Boeke <referencedesk () ATT NET> wrote to FOI-L:
Learn online about the USA Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment! The U.Md. College of Information Studies is offering a new series of electronic continuing education courses ñ similar in content and quality to those offered on-site in prior terms. Each will be available on-line for a two-week period, will focus on the key legal and policy issues facing information professionals, and is structured with an effective mix of on-line, CD-based, and interactive content. As such, you will participate now and have reference materials on-hand for future reference. Our first course: 21 April ñ 02 May 2003 îGovernment Intrusion vs. Individual Liberty: Understanding the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Actî Go to http://www.clis.umd.edu/ce/spring03/govtintrusion.html for further information and electronic on-line enrollment with special introductory pricing of $95.00 (afterwards $225.00)! Please register by 7 April 2003. The instructor is Lee S. Strickland, J.D., a visiting law professor at U.Md., on detail from the Central Intelligence Agency, who speaks and writes nationally on information law issues. Topics to be addressed: ï The historical precedent and basic provisions of the 4th Amendment; ï The five axioms of 4th Amendment law -- from the basic requirement for warrants to warrantless searches given special governmental interests; ï Electronic communications, the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act; ï Technology and the 4th Amendment including Carnivore, RFIDs and other acquisition tools; ï The foreign intelligence exception to the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act; ï The issue of voluntary disclosures; ï Citizen enforcement of 4th Amendment rights; ï The intersection between the 1st and the 4th Amendments ñ the limits of police surveillance; and, ï The future: The Son of the Patriot Act.
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