Athens, VT Community Resolution

The voters of the town of Athens approved the following resolution at the Town Meeting on March 4, 2003

We call on our local government to act in the spirit of our state and federal Constitutions by asking local and state police, the local U.S. Attoreny's office and the FBI to:

1. Report to citizens regularly and publicly the extent to and manner in which they have acted under the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, and orders and rules of the executive branch, or COINTELPRO-type regulations, including disclosing the names of any detainees;
2. Not participate, to the extent legally permissible, in law enforcement activities that threaten civil rights and civil liberties such as surveillance, wiretaps, and securing of private information, which the Acts and Orders authorize;
3. End racial profiling in law enforcement and detentions without charges; and

We call on our local government to:

1. Openly work for the repeal of the parts of the Acts and Orders that violate civil rights and civil liberties
2. Ask the Town Clerk to notify the above authorities of our action in this regard