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Libraries Shredding Documents To beat Patriot Act
ds of the transaction are deleted from the computer. Paper records are shredded.
Meantime, Police Chief Lynne Johnson is supporting a resolution coming before the city council. It would prohibit officers from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence a crime has been committed.
Library groups are upset with the Patriot Act because it makes it far easier for the FBI to obtain records and offers libraries no way to resist.
An FBI spokesman says if libraries shred their records, the agency will get by without them.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press.
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