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FCPC ALERT #2004-2
Originally Published on
Greetings! This
message is intended for members of the Fairfax County Privacy Council, and
anyone else who might be interested in advancing privacy in
Privacy Notice: All
communication from the Fairfax Privacy Council is sent using blind carbon copy
("BCC") format for your security and privacy.
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ALERT ITEM SUMMARY:
***URGENT ACTION ITEM:
Proposed VA Law (SB634) to Establish Teacher/Worker/Volunteer Fingerprint
Database with State Police!
***League of Woman Voters Sponsor USAPATRIOT
Act Event
***Re: Sept. 11th, Senator Bob Kerrey Says
"What Other Politicians Won't"
***CAPPS II Scandal Uncovered
***Retired
1. URGENT ACTION ITEM: Proposed VA Law
(SB634) to Establish Teacher/Worker/Volunteer Fingerprint Database with State
Police:
Teachers/government
employees/community volunteers/etc., forward this alert
as soon as possible…Your unions are asleep!
There is a bill in
the Virginia General Assembly called SB634 that would require that
But it's not to late
to stop this bill - some delegates on this committee have already been
getting feedback from irate teachers and other government employees and
community volunteers, so it's not too late to stop this bill - support is
wavering. Please send an email to the committee opposing SB634. All
the committee member email addresses are listed below for pasting, and you can
either just cut and paste the message in, or you can modify the message.
To look up the email address of "your" delegate, go to http://legis.state.va.us and click on
"Who's my legislator."
This is urgent -
please forward to all teachers, governmental employees, volunteers, families,
and concerned citizens/families that you know.
------------------------Sample
Message:
To: Del_Sherwood@house.state.va.us, Del_Weatherholtz@house.state.va.us,
del_Griffith@House.state.va.us, del_ kilgore@house.state.va.us, Del_Louderback@house.state.va.us,
del_wright@house.state.va.us, Del_Carrico@house.state.va.us,
Del_Lingamfelter@house.state.va.us, del_Athey@house.state.va.us, Del_Nutter@house.state.va.us,
Del_Hurt@house.state.va.us, Del_Hogan@house.state.va.us,
Del_Janis@House.state.va.us, Del_Cline@House.state.va.us,
Del_Scott@house.state.va.us, Del_Pollard@house.state.va.us,
Del_VanLandingham@house.state.va.us, del_Barlow@house.state.va.us, Del_Shuler@house.state.va.us,
Del_Petersen@house.state.va.us, Del_Miles@house.state.va.us,
del_lewis@house.state.va.us
CC: Del_Morgan@house.state.va.us, Del_Howell@House.state.va.us,
SOE-CS@governor.virginia.gov, sarah.finley@governor.virginia.gov,
peter.blake@governor.virginia.gov, jbankos@veanea.org, princess@ns.gemlink.com,
"Your Delegate"
SUBJECT:
Please Oppose SB634!
ATTN: House
Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
Dear Delegate:
I am a Virginia
teacher/public servant/volunteer/concerned citizen [choose one] and I will
choose to never work again in Virginia if I am forced by SB634 to be
fingerprinted and surveilled like a common criminal
by the State Police.
Please vote against
SB634 to protect the fundamental right to privacy and dignity of state and
locality employees. SB634 is the most invasive piece of legislation
introduced in the General Assembly this session.
Our hard working
state and locality employees already go through fingerprint enabled criminal
background checks with the FBI. Adding insult to injury, most state
agencies and localities fail to warn employees that disclosure of their Social
Security Number ("SSN"), if any, in conjunction with fingerprinting
and criminal background checks is NOT required (see Section 7 of PL 93-579 [the
Federal Privacy Act of 1974, 5 USC 552a note] at http://www.fairfaxcountyprivacycouncil.org/Section7oftheFederalPrivacyAct.html.htm.
This scofflaw behavior by state agencies
and localities takes place despite a written instruction from the FBI (on the
fingerprinting form) to state agencies and localities that the SSN warning is
REQUIRED under Section 7 of PL 93-579.
SB634's aim to
retain these fingerprints and other biographical data with the VA State Police
in order to build digital dossiers on Americans living or working in
One of largest
groups to be affected by SB634 are
Although SB634 calls
for the employing agency or entity to pay an annual digital fingerprint dossier
maintenance fee to the State Police of $10, please note that under SB90,
localities would be authorized to make employees pay fingerprinting fees, and
either SB90 or a similar future bill could be used to justify making employees
like teachers pay for their own surveillance by the State Police.
If the committee
really feels that fingerprinting and surveillance of
Please let me know
how you are going to vote on SB634.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME
YOUR ADDRESS
YOUR PHONE NUMBER
cc: VEA, House
Leadership, VA Secretary of Education, Delegate ______[fill
in]
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2. League of Woman Voters Sponsor USAPATRIOT
Act Event: Come attend a free public meeting on Saturday, February
21, 10:30 AM at the Westpark Hotel, 8401 Westpark Drive in Tyson's Corner, VA regarding the USA
PATRIOT Act and other new post September 11th laws and regulations on civil liberties
in America. The event is sponsored by the League of Woman Voters of the
The PATRIOT Act was
passed in a rush and went too far. But you can Take Action!: Tell your Members of
Congress to cosponsor the SAFE Act to reform the USAPATRIOT Act. Click
here for more information and to send a free fax to your Members of
Congress: http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13907&c=24
3. Re: Sept. 11th, Senator Bob Kerrey Says
"What Other Politicians Won't":
Here is an interesting admission of
FCPC hopes that this
federal commission's report makes pointed judgments on this subject such as
Kerrey's, and including criticism about how effective the FAA
"photo-ID" protocol was on 9/11. Fast food security schemes
like demanding photo-IDs ought to get their fair share of blame for 9/11
because they diverted managerial attention from confronting a real
threat. See How We Are Fighting the War on Terrorism: IDs and the
illusion of security," The San Francisco Chronicle, by
Bruce Schneier,
4. CAPPS II Scandal Uncovered:
Speaking of fast food security, it looks like the Department of Homeland
Security has been caught red-handed "strong arming" Jet Blue Airlines
into secretly providing the US Army confidential passenger data for
"testing" of the proposed Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening
Program ("CAPPS") II, and then trying to hide their role! A
coalition of Congressman and Privacy Groups have called for hearings into the
entire CAPPS II debacle and urge that the new airline passenger screening
system should be "suspended indefinitely" (see "Senators
question TSA role in transfer of passenger records," Technology Daily, 17
February 2004, http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/021704tdpm1.htm
and "Lawmakers call for suspension of new passenger screening system, Government
Executive, by Chris Strohm, 13 February 2004,
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/021304c1.htm).
Take Action!: Tell your Congressional delegation
that your want federal hearings into the CAPPS II scandal with just a few
clicks at http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2854.
5. Privacy Quote: "The American people need to be better educated
on what's happening with the Patriot Act…I think in some cases we might have
gone too far, and I don't think we can afford to go too far. . . . We don't
want to wake up 10 years from now and say, 'How did we lose these rights, how
did we get to this a particular point'?" - Former
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Questions,
or to be added/deleted from future Alerts? Contact Mike Stollenwerk at
Chairman@FairfaxCountyPrivacyCouncil.org.