"The PATRIOT Act: Keep It, Change It, or Toss It?"
presented by:
The National Law Journal & Columbia Law School Randolph Speakers Fund Center for Crime, Community and the Law Criminal Law & Public Policy Society
Monday, April 12, 2004 7 p.m. Jerome Greene Hall
Panelists: Matthew Berry Senior Counsel / Office of Legal Policy Department of Justice
Ann Beeson Associate Legal Director / American Civil Liberties Union
Robert Cleary Proskauer Rose, New York, NY Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Alice Fisher Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC Former Deputy Asst. Attorney General / Department of Justice Criminal Division
Nancy Chang Senior Litigation Attorney Center for Constitutional Rights
David Sobel General Counsel / Electronic Privacy Information Center
Moderators: Marcia Coyle Washington Bureau Chief / National Law Journal
Debra Livingston Columbia Law Professor / Former Asst. U.S. Attorney
This roundtable on the PATRIOT Act will zero in on the issues that are likely to generate the most debate in Congress during the pending reauthorization debate. We will ask about the Act's surveillance provisions--the so-called "sneak and peak" warrants that allow law enforcement to search homes without advance notice; the sharing of information between law enforcement and intelligence agencies; warrants for information held by third parties, such as library records; and the prohibition on third parties from disclosing that they have turned over information to the authorities. We will also examine the proposed SAFE Act, which would put limits on those provisions.
