Law and Immigration Enforcement and Libraries: A Legal Overview & Best Practices
This webinar will provide a legal overview about libraries’ and library users’ rights and responsibilities when law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seek to conduct investigations in libraries or obtain library users' records.
Sarah Lamdan is the Deputy Director at ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Before joining ALA, Sarah was an attorney and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law and a librarian in various academic and private law libraries. Her work has been featured in Library Quarterly, Georgetown Law Technology Review, and NYU's Review of Law & Social Change. Her book Data Cartels was published by Stanford University Press in 2022.
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