To: Montfort
The legal issue boils down not to the patron's rights, but because the records are the records of the library, it is the right of that institution that are in question.
The fourth amendment protects the library from having to fork over its records without a warrant, issued on probable cause.
To: John Beresford Tipton
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and siezures shall not be violated ...
I think one can argue that your library records, as say your banking records, are "effects" within the meaning of the 4th Amendment and thus not just a "library" issue but that of the patrons as well.
14 posted on
05/31/2003 1:25:57 PM PDT by
Tunehead54
(Support Our Troops! Screw France.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson