SJM 8016 - DIGEST

Requests that the United States Congress more carefully balance the need to effectively combat terrorism and the civil liberties and freedoms that we all value and enjoy by placing more safeguards and oversight on the implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act and the attempts by DARPA to accumulate and utilize data bases without oversight and protection.

Requests that the federal government and its agents refrain from engaging in surveillance and collecting or maintaining information about the political, religious, or social views, associations, activities, travel, reading habits, and medical records of our people unless the information relates directly to a specific criminal investigation and there is probable cause to suspect the subject of the information is involved in criminal conduct.