ACRL Government Relations Committee

Agenda 

• Government surveillance


• Net Neutrality


• Copyright (DMCA exceptions, Register of Copyrights Office)


• Privacy (Email privacy, Executive order 12333)


• HEA reauthorization

Watchlist

• FASTR


• Marakesh Treaty (part of copyright?)


• De-funding Concerns (NEH, NIH) 


• Data collection and dissemination (NCES,  EPA, etc.)

Here's an article:  Information lockdown hits Trump’s federal agencies  (from Politico, 01/24/17, cited in The Chronicle 2/2/2017)

"Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social media in the early days of Donald Trump's presidency...."

The steps to mute federal employees — seen to varying degrees in the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of the Interior, Transportation, Agriculture and Health and Human Services — are sparking early fears of a broader crackdown across the government, as Trump vows to pursue an agenda sharply at odds with his predecessor."

• Campus Carry Laws / CDC research on gun violence