[Repost from Dig_Ref <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:58:56 +0000 From: Cindy Boeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: E-Learning on the Patriot Act
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: . The historical precedent and basic provisions of the 4th Amendment; . The five axioms of 4th Amendment law -- from the basic requirement for warrants to warrantless searches given special governmental interests; . Electronic communications, the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act; . Technology and the 4th Amendment including Carnivore, RFIDs and other acquisition tools; . The foreign intelligence exception to the 4th Amendment and the USA Patriot Act; . The issue of voluntary disclosures; . Citizen enforcement of 4th Amendment rights; . The intersection between the 1st and the 4th Amendments - the limits of police surveillance; and, . The future: The Son of the Patriot Act. Cheers! -- Han Tacoma ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
