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Police demand library's computers; librarian demands a warrant first
by Dan Atkinson, Newton Jan. 25, 2006
http://www.unknownnews.org/0601270125NewtonLibrary.html
Law enforcement and Newton Free Library officials were
embroiled in a tense standoff for nearly 10 hours last week
when the city refused to let police and the FBI examine library computers without a warrant.


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Newton library forces FBI to get warrant to seize computers
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff  |  January 26, 2006
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/26/newton_library_f
orces_fbi_to_get_warrant_to_seize_computers/>
A matter of principle -- and law -- made Newton Free Library's
director, Kathy Glick-Weil, insist that FBI agents cool their heels in
their pursuit of an alleged terrorist threat.
Glick-Weil said yesterday she had no choice but to prevent the FBI
from seizing library computers last week, because they came without a
search warrant.
The agents waited until a warrant arrived at 11:30 p.m. -- nearly nine
hours after they arrived at the main branch on Homer Street -- before
they seized three computers, Glick-Weil said. The agents said they had
traced a threat of a terrorist attack against Brandeis University made
earlier in the day on Jan. 18 to library publicly used computers.
''There is a state law, and we have our own policy on it," said
Glick-Weil, who made the decision after consulting with Newton's
mayor, David B. Cohen.
Waltham police said several buildings at Brandeis and a public
elementary school were evacuated after university officials received
an e-mail warning that there would be a terrorist attack at the Heller
School for Social Policy and Management. A search of the buildings
turned up no explosives, police said.
FBI agents and the library's staff traced the threatening message to a
second floor lab. Officials would not say whether they could determine
who was at the computer when the threat was made.
Gail Marcinkiewicz, Boston FBI spokeswoman, said yesterday that the
bureau contends that the agents could have seized the computers
without a warrant, under the legal theory that they were ''evidence of
a crime in plain view."
But by the time a warrant became an issue, law enforcement officials
had determined there was no imminent danger and decided to cooperate
with Newton officials, Marcinkiewicz said. She said no arrests had
been made as of yesterday afternoon.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts praised the
library staff yesterday for demanding the warrant.



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