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Waitsfield, Vermont

City/Town: Waitsfield
County: Washington
State: Vermont
Congressional District: (click to contact Rep.) 1

Population (2000 Census): 1,659
Date Passed: 03/04/03

Non-Binding Resolution to Protect Our Constitutional Rights and Freedoms

Approved by: Waitsfield Town Meeting

We, the voters of the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont, gathered today at this Town Meeting, and voting from the floor, do resolve to direct our Town Clerk to notify all of our local, state and federal representatives to do all in their power to rescind parts of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, and recent Federal Executive orders which threaten our most precious civil liberties; freedom of speech, assembly, privacy, protections from unreasonable searches and seizures, wire tapping, access to personal records of all kinds, and the right to legal counsel. We further resolve that the Freedom of Information Act be upheld and that citizens have the right to be notified of any investigations being undertaken by the FBI, or any other branch of government, when there is no evidence of a crime and no court order.