E-Learning on the Patriot Act

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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 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 – 02 May 2003

Government Intrusion vs. Individual Liberty:  Understanding the 4th Amendment 
and the USA Patriot Act

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:
o The historical precedent and basic provisions of the 4th Amendment; 
o The five axioms of 4th Amendment law -- from the basic requirement for 
  warrants to warrantless searches given special governmental interests;
o Electronic communications, the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act;
o Technology and the 4th Amendment including Carnivore, RFIDs and other 
  acquisition tools;
o The foreign intelligence exception to the 4th Amendment and the USA 
  Patriot Act;
o The issue of voluntary disclosures;
o Citizen enforcement of 4th Amendment rights;
o The intersection between the 1st and the 4th Amendments; the limits of 
  police surveillance; and,
o The future:  The Son of the Patriot Act.

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