Bill Text: OH SCR19 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To urge the United States Congress to investigate
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-11 - To State Government Oversight & Reform [SCR19 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-SCR19-Introduced.html
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Senator Jordan
Cosponsor:
Senator Jones
To urge the United States Congress to investigate | 1 |
whether federal agencies have engaged in | 2 |
unconstitutional surveillance of United States | 3 |
citizens and to take appropriate action on its | 4 |
findings. | 5 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, During the past seven years, the National Security | 6 |
Agency allegedly has obtained secret court orders to require | 7 |
telephone companies such as Verizon Communications to provide the | 8 |
Agency with daily logs of all telephone communications, whether | 9 |
between the United States and abroad or wholly within the United | 10 |
States, including local calls; and | 11 |
WHEREAS, During the past six years, under the PRISM program, | 12 |
the National Security Agency allegedly has obtained secret court | 13 |
orders to require internet companies such as Google, Facebook, and | 14 |
Apple to provide the Agency with direct access to a wide range of | 15 |
user information, including communications sent by American | 16 |
citizens to persons outside the United States; and | 17 |
WHEREAS, The Fourth Amendment to the United States | 18 |
Constitution guarantees the right of the people to be free from | 19 |
unreasonable searches and seizures and prohibits the government | 20 |
from issuing a warrant without probable cause and a particular | 21 |
description of the place to be searched and the persons or things | 22 |
to be seized; now therefore be it | 23 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 24 |
of the State of Ohio, urge the United States Congress to | 25 |
investigate whether the National Security Agency or any other | 26 |
federal agency has engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of | 27 |
United States citizens; and be it further | 28 |
RESOLVED, That, if any federal agency has conducted | 29 |
unconstitutional surveillance of United States citizens, we urge | 30 |
Congress immediately to defund and dismantle the programs used to | 31 |
do so and to order that any illegally obtained data, records, or | 32 |
personal information regarding United States citizens be | 33 |
destroyed; and be it further | 34 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit duly | 35 |
authenticated copies of this resolution to the Speaker and the | 36 |
Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the President | 37 |
Pro Tempore and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the | 38 |
members of the Ohio Congressional delegation, and the news media | 39 |
of Ohio. | 40 |