The Whatcom County Library System won a prestigious national library award for fighting the FBI over a subpoena this summer.
The library system will receive the University of Illinois' Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award in Boston on Jan. 15.
The award honors the library system for refusing to give the FBI loan records when someone found a written note inside of a book about Osama bin Laden.
Bellingham Herald articleThe library system will receive the University of Illinois' Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award in Boston on Jan. 15.
The award honors the library system for refusing to give the FBI loan records when someone found a written note inside of a book about Osama bin Laden.
Thanks to Maru for snagging this article.
More links to resistance to this PATRIOT act infringement on civil liberties (libraries were first and foremost) are on my Resistance web page.
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