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HR 2102 - Reporter's Source Confidentiality Guidelines - National Key Vote
Zoe Lofgren voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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Legislation - Placed on Calendar (Senate) - Oct. 18, 2007
Legislation -
Bill Passed
(House)
(398-21) -
Oct. 16, 2007(Key vote)
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Title: Reporter's Source Confidentiality Guidelines
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Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the federal government or a communications service provider from requiring a reporter to disclose writings, recordings, photographs, or the identity of a source, except under certain conditions.
- Defines a communications service provider as an entity "that transmits information of the customer's choosing by electronic means," including telecommunications carriers, interactive computer service providers, and information service providers (Sec. 4).
- Prohibits any federal entity or communications service provider from requiring a reporter to disclose information or testimony in a criminal investigation unless a court determines that the entity has exhausted other alternative sources and that reasonable grounds exist to believe a crime has been committed (Secs. 2[a] & Sec. 3[a]).
- Prohibits any federal entity or communications service provider from requiring a reporter to disclose the identity of a source unless all alternative sources have been exhausted and such identification is needed to (Secs. 2[a(3)] & Sec. 3[a]):
- Prevent a terror attack or other significant and specified harm to national security;
- Prevent death or bodily harm;
- Determine the identity of someone who has leaked a trade secret;
- Determine the identity of someone who has leaked individually identifiable health information or other nonpublic personal information; or
- Determine in a criminal investigation the identity of a person who has leaked classified information that will cause significant harm to national security.
- Requires that any information or testimony a reporter is required to disclose shall be limited to prevent the disclosure of nonessential information (Secs. 2[c] & Sec. 3[a]).
- States that a reporter's personal witnessing of an alleged crime and audio or visual recording of an alleged crime are not covered by these protections (Secs. 2[e] & Sec. 3[a]).
- Provides journalists the opportunity to appear before the court before writings, recordings, or photographs sought by a communications service provider are compelled to be disclosed (Sec. 3[b]).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 2, 2007
Title: Reporter's Source Confidentiality Guidelines
Sponsors
- Frederick C. 'Rick' Boucher (VA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Tammy Baldwin (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Shelley Berkley (NV - D) (Out Of Office)
- Earl Blumenauer (OR - D)
- Roy Blunt (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- George K. 'G.K.' Butterfield Jr. (NC - D)
- Lois Capps (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Russell 'Russ' Carnahan (MO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kathy Castor (FL - D)
- John Howard Coble (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Stephen Ira 'Steve' Cohen (TN - D)
- John Conyers Jr. (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jim Cooper (TN - D)
- Joseph D. 'Joe' Courtney (CT - D)
- Elijah E. Cummings (MD - D)
- William D. 'Bill' Delahunt (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rosa L. DeLauro (CT - D)
- Norman DeValois 'Norm' Dicks (WA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael F. 'Mike' Doyle Jr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rahm Emanuel (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Philip 'Phil' English (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Anna G. Eshoo (CA - D)
- Mary Fallin (OK - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael 'Mike' Ferguson (NJ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jeff Flake (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Luis Guillermo Fortuño (PR - R) (Out Of Office)
- Scott Garrett (NJ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles A. 'Charlie' Gonzalez (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- Raymond Eugene 'Gene' Green (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- Al Green (TX - D)
- Luis V. Gutiérrez (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alcee L. 'Judge' Hastings Sr. (FL - D)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (TX - D)
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy (RI - D) (Out Of Office)
- John R. 'Randy' Kuhl Jr. (NY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Nicholas V. 'Nick' Lampson (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- John B. Larson (CT - D)
- Ron Lewis (KY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Zoe Lofgren (CA - D)
- Connie Mack IV (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael T. McCaul (TX - R)
- Thaddeus G. 'Thad' McCotter (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Gregory W. Meeks (NY - D)
- Christopher S. 'Chris' Murphy (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Grace Flores Napolitano (CA - D)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC - D)
- Solomon P. Ortiz Sr. (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frank J. Pallone Jr. (NJ - D)
- Donald M. Payne (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Pence (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Todd Russell Platts (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ted Poe (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
- Adam H. Putnam (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- George P. Radanovich (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas M. Reynolds (NY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Steven R. 'Steve' Rothman (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- C. A. Dutch 'Dutch' Ruppersberger (MD - D)
- Paul D. Ryan (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Janice D. 'Jan' Schakowsky (IL - D)
- Christopher H. Shays (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edolphus 'Ed' Towns (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas S. 'Tom' Udall (NM - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frederick Stephen 'Fred' Upton (MI - R)
- Timothy L. 'Tim' Walberg (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Greg P. Walden (OR - R)
- James T. 'Jim' Walsh (NY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL - D)
- Diane E. Watson (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Wexler (FL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frank Rudolph Wolf (VA - R) (Out Of Office)
- David Wu (OR - D) (Out Of Office)
- John A. Yarmuth (KY - D)