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      "summary": "The USA PATRIOT Act,  P.L. 107-56 , enacted to help track down and punish terrorists and to\nprevent further terrorism, contains no provisions specifically directed at libraries or their patrons. \nIt has several provisions, however, that might apply in a library context. The most frequently\nmentioned of these is Section 215, which amends the business record sections of the Foreign\nIntelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On December 22, 2005, the House and Senate enacted a bill\n( S. 2167 ) that extended the sunset of certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act\n(including section 215), originally set to expire on December 31, 2005, until February 3, 2006. On\nFebruary 2, 2006, Congress passed  H.R. 4659 , which further extended the sunset to\nMarch 10, 2006. The pending conference version of H.R.  3199 amends section 215 and\npostpones its expiration until December 31, 2009.\n Before the USA PATRIOT Act, federal authorities engaged in gathering foreign intelligence\ninformation or conducting an investigation of international terrorism could seek a FISA court order\nfor access to hotel, airline, storage locker, and car rental business records. Section 215 amended the\nprocedure so that in a foreign intelligence or international terrorism investigation, federal authorities\nmay obtain a FISA order for access to  any tangible item no matter who holds it ,\nincluding by\nimplication library loan records and the records of library computer use. Although past practices\nhave apparently made the library community apprehensive, the extent to which the authority of\nSection 215 has been used, if at all, is unclear. Media accounts of federal investigations involving\nlibrary patrons ordinarily do not distinguish between simple inquiries, grand jury subpoenas, criminal\nsearch warrants, FISA physical search orders, and FISA tangible item orders. Moreover, the Justice\nDepartment has indicated that as of March 30, 2005, the authority under Section 215 had been\nexercised on 35 occasions but had not been used in any instance to secure library, bookstore, gun\nsale, or medical records.",
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