Taxpayer, Watchdog Groups Urge House, Senate Judiciary Panels to Advance ICPA Bills
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste and a half dozen taxpayer groups are urging the House and Senate Judiciary committees to pass the International Communications Privacy Act (S-2986/HR-5323), which would clarify how law enforcement officials obtain U.S. citizens' electronic…
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communications wherever the person or that individual's personal information is located. The identical, bipartisan ICPA bills, which business and technology groups also support, were introduced in May in both chambers (see 1605250050 and 1607140012). In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the coalition said the legislation "strikes the right balance" between privacy protection and law enforcement needs. The coalition said the bills would also update the mutual legal assistance treaty process (MLAT) and provide "greater accessibility, transparency, and accountability by requiring the attorney general to create an online docketing system for MLAT requests and publish new statistics on the number of such requests." Other signatories to the letter are American Commitment, Americans for Tax Reform, FreedomWorks, Institute for Liberty, National Taxpayers Union and Taxpayers Protection Alliance.