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July 24, 2004
From:  Brenda Grantland, Board President, Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Re:  DOJ's order that depository libraries destroy certain DOJ forfeiture publications

On July 20, Judith C. Russell, the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Printing Office, sent a letter to all of the depository libraries in the country, telling them to destroy five Department of Justice publications about asset forfeiture, all published between 2000 and 2004.  The publications to be destroyed are:

Documents to be removed and destroyed:

Title:  Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure
Class:  J 1.2:C 49/17
Item no:        0717
Shipping list: 2004-0276-M
Shipping list date: May 7, 2004

Title:  Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms
Class:  J 1.2:F 76/8
Item no.:       0717
Shipping list: 2004-0038-P
Shipping list date: December 12, 2003

Title:  Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes
Class:  J 1.2:AS 7/2/2004
Item no.:       0717
Shipping list no.: 2004-0077-P
Shipping list date: February 5, 2004

Title:  Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory
Class:  J 1.89/3:M 74/2004
Item no.:       0717 A 11
Shipping list no. 2004-0120-P
Shipping list date: March 24, 2004

Title:  Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA), PL no.
106-185, 114 Stat. 202 (2000)
Class:  J 1.2:C 49/16
Item no:        0717
Shipping list no.: 2000-0367-P
Shipping list date: September 23, 2000

As you can see, these materials would be of use to forfeiture victims in their fight to get their property back.  Because they had been released into the library system for some time, they were all public documents.   Many of the publications are comprised of statutes and court opinions which are in the public domain.
Please help us fight to keep these publications in the public library system.  Write your Congressmen telling them how important it is that this public information remain available.  The American Library Association has a  web page that allows you to look up your Congressmen.  See http://capwiz.com/ala/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir .
Another way to help is to call your nearby depository libraries and ask them not to destroy these materials.  "Depository libraries" -- that is, libraries that stock U.S. government publications -- are listed on the U.S. Government Printing Office website (www.gpo.gov).

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