Legislature(2013 - 2014)CAPITOL 120
04/11/2014 01:00 PM House JUDICIARY
| Audio | Topic |
|---|---|
| Start | |
| HB254 | |
| SJR22 | |
| SB171 | |
| SB187 | |
| SB108 | |
| HB108 | |
| SB187 | |
| SB173 | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
| + | SCR 2 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | SB 173 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | HB 370 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | HB 254 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | TELECONFERENCED | ||
| += | SB 171 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 187 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | HB 60 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | HB 108 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | SJR 22 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 108 | TELECONFERENCED | |
SJR 22-OPPOSE WARRANTLESS DATA COLLECTION
1:18:56 PM
CHAIR KELLER listed the bills to be discussed at today's
hearing, and then he announced that the next order of business
would be SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22 am: Opposing the
warrantless collection of telephone call data by the National
Security Agency.
1:20:18 PM
SENATOR CATHY GIESSEL, Alaska State Legislature, said SJR 22
"calls out the NSA [National Security Agency] and their bulk
telephone record program, which has been capturing our telephone
records, storing them, viewing them, and this calls out our
opposition to this program." She said SJR 22 has bipartisan
support in the Alaska Senate and across the country, and it
calls out the violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments by
this program. "We are simply urging the federal government to
truly abandon the program," she summarized.
1:21:22 PM
CHAIR KELLER noted that the version before the committee was
amended on the Senate floor and is labeled 1391\U.a.
JANE CONWAY, Staff to Senator Cathy Giessel, Alaska State
Legislature, said the Senate, on the floor, added the governor
to the list of recipients and the following language:
The Alaska State Legislature urges the governor to
prohibit the use of state personnel and resources to
assist the NSA in its collection of mass data on
Alaskans without specific search warrant.
1:22:29 PM
MS. CONWAY said the resolution is a reflection of growing
negative public sentiment toward the NSA's aggressive collection
of data. She said everyone is aware of "the whistleblower
situation and the uprising against the NSA's collections of
data." In December, 2013, Judge Leon said, "I cannot imagine a
more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic
and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on
virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing
it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program
infringes on that degree of privacy that the founders enshrined
in the Fourth Amendment."
1:23:41 PM
MS. CONWAY said the NSA was founded in 1952, and it focused on
overseas surveillance but has morphed into something quite
different. She said the activities are in violation of the
Constitution and strip Alaskans and Americans of their liberty.
[SJR 22] urges the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to
declassify past opinions and urges future opinions to be
released to the public, she stated. The resolution finds NSA's
activities to be a troubling example of federal overreach, she
added, and there is a packet with various articles. She said
she believes that the President made an announcement a few weeks
ago that he was going to propose a lot of changes, and those are
being deliberated in Congress right now.
1:24:53 PM
REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG noted a technical change on line 20,
page 4, which should say "and the Constitution of the State of
Alaska." Additionally, since these are activities of the NSA,
"I believe that is under the jurisdiction of the Senate
Intelligence Committee ... and if so, you might want to have
copies sent to the chair of that committee and the ranking
minority member." He suggested those as conceptual amendments.
1:26:47 PM
REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG offered Conceptual Amendment 1, as
follows:
Page 4, line 20, will read "the Constitution of the
State of Alaska.
Recipients of the resolution will include the chairs
and ranking members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate
Intelligence Committees.
1:27:14 PM
CHAIR KELLER, hearing no objection, announced the adoption of
Conceptual Amendment 1.
REPRESENTATIVE LYNN moved to report SJR 22 am, as amended, out
of committee with individual recommendations and the
accompanying fiscal notes. Hearing no objections, HCS SJR
22(JUD) passed out of the House Judiciary Standing Committee.
The committee took an at-ease from 1:28 p.m. to 1:28 p.m.
1:28:41 PM