[IP] E-Learning on the Patriot Act

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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]

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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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