First Amendment Rodeo 2/4-2/20, 2011

Censorship, General Interest, Intellectual Freedom Issues, PATRIOT Act, Privacy

Censorship

Crusade On To Ban Controversial ‘Wallflower’ At Rockland School

Book Banners Finding Power in Numbers

Clarkstown parents want to ban controversial book from high school

Pennsylvania School Board will not remove a book that has been criticized for violent themes from an elementary school library

Second book challenged and removed in Bedford

Privacy

FBI To Announce New Net-Wiretapping Push

House Republicans Seek to Extend Anti-Terroism Law

Get Ready For A Flurry Of New Online-Privacy Bills In Congress

National Security Letters: Proposals in the 112th Congress

(For Patriot Act updates see previous OIF Blog postings)