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Newsbrief:
Justice
Department
Backs
Off
on
Plan
to
Destroy
Library
Asset
Forfeiture
Pamphlets
8/6/04
Last week, DRCNet noted that
the Government Printing Office (GPO), acting at the behest of the Justice
Department, had ordered the nation's depository libraries to destroy five
Justice pamphlets related to asset forfeiture law and practice (https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/348/documents.shtml).
The order had generated outrage from librarians, civil libertarians, and
asset forfeiture abuse opponents alike.
Now, in the face of threatened
legal action, the GPO has reversed itself. The action came on July
29. According to GPO sources contacted by the Boston Globe, GPO acted
after the Justice Department asked that the request to remove the information
be rescinded. According to a letter from Justice to GPO cited by
the Globe, the department suddenly decided the pamphlets were "not sufficiently
sensitive to require removal."
The American Library Association
had been a particularly strident critic of the move to censor the pamphlets.
After learning of the Justice Department's decision to reconsider, the
organization wrote a letter to members of the US House and Senate judiciary
committees saying, "We are gratified that [the government] has realized
that information that is legally available to the public should remain
so."
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