{"id":4015,"date":"2017-01-12T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2017-01-12T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:48:00","slug":"legislative-update-1122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-1122017\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 1\/12\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With presidential administrations poised for turnover, a number of library advocacy issues are on the precipice of change:
\n– support of\u00a0net neutrality<\/a>, which the FCC strongly bolstered in 2015 with the adoption of the Open Internet rules, may be weakened or eliminated under the new administration;
\n– championship of\u00a0privacy<\/a>, including as it relates to library patron records, is under question as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) takes over the office of Attorney General;
\n– efforts to pass the\u00a0Email Privacy Act<\/a>, which would prevent unwarranted access by authorities to electronic communications, will be reinvigorated; and,
\n– modernization of the\u00a0Copyright Office<\/a>, including the potential decoupling of this office from the Library of Congress, is on the horizon.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Illinois State Comptroller’s Office has an informative\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0that allows you to see the finances of the state and your local government. To access the current state expenditures and revenues as well as the current total for the backlog of unpaid bills, use\u00a0The Ledger<\/a>. To run reports on your local county, municipality, township, or other taxing district, use\u00a0The Warehouse<\/a>. The\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0also has other tools and pages to explore, including the\u00a0Check for Cash<\/a>\u00a0page that let’s you see if the state owes you any money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal: With presidential administrations poised for turnover, a number of library advocacy issues are on the precipice of change: – support of\u00a0net neutrality, which the FCC strongly bolstered in 2015 with the adoption of the Open Internet rules, may be weakened or eliminated under the new administration; – championship of\u00a0privacy, including as it relates to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}