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Liberty Coalition

The Liberty Coalition is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
that connects politically diverse organizations and promotes transpartisan policies related to civil liberties and basic human rights.

The Liberty Coalition is associated with the Liberty and Privacy Network.
Liberty Coalition was founded in 2005 by Michael D. Ostrolenk, J. Bradley Jansen, and James Plummer.

In January 2006, the Coalition received national media attention upon co-sponsoring former Vice President

Vice president

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Al Gore

Al Gore

Republican Party (United States)

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Congressman Bob Barr

Bob Barr

Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. is a former federal prosecutorand a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican Party from 1995 to 2003....
was scheduled to introduce Al Gore

Al Gore

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to emphasize the transpartisan nature of the event, however, technical difficulties made Barr's telecast impossible.

Liberty Coalition has nine working groups which focus on issues they consider to be important.

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The Liberty Coalition is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

History

The Liberty Coalition was founded in 2005 by Michael D. Ostrolenk, J. Bradley Jansen, and James Plummer.

In January 2006, the Coalition received national media attention upon co-sponsoring former Vice President

Vice president

A vice president is an Corporate officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin List of Latin phrases #vice meaning 'in place of'....
Al Gore

Al Gore

Republican Party (United States)

Bob Barr

Al Gore

Issue areas

The Liberty Coalition has nine working groups which focus on issues they consider to be important. They include:

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Financial privacy
Financial privacy

Financial Privacy is a blanket term for a multitude of privacy issues:*Financial Institutions ensuring that their customers information remains private to those outside the institution....
National Security Whistleblowers
Domestic Spying and Surveillance
Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Systems surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired Norm in trusted systems for security or social control....
The Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Military of the United States....
's recruitment database for teenagers
Federally supported mass mental health
Mental health

Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognition or emotional Quality of life or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychol...
screening
The use of the material witness
Material witness

A material witness is a person with information alleged to be material concerning a criminal proceeding. The authority to detain material witnesses dates to the First Judiciary Act of 1789, but the Bail Reform Act of 1984 most recently amended the text of the statute, and it is now codified at ....
statute following 9/11
Medical privacy
Medical privacy

The main subject of medical privacy is the 'medical record' which historically has been a paper file of the entire medical history of the patient....
Constitutional drug policy

Partner organizations

The Liberty Coalition has numerous partner organizations that span the political spectrum. They are quick to note that the positions they take "should not be taken as an endorsement by any partner organization unless explicitly stated as such." A few include:

Americans for Tax Reform
Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform is an interest group seeking to reduce the overall level of taxation in the United States, at the federal, state and local level....
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Bill of Rights Defense Committee

The national Bill of Rights Defense Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which encourages local communities to take an active role in the ongoing national debate about threats to civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, such as the USA PATRIOT Act, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, and the Military Commissions...
Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics
Downsize DC
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation

The National Committee Against Repressive Legislation is a national not-for-profit advocacy organization dedicated to defending the right of political dissent....

External links

, a consumer privacy website sponsored by the Liberty Coalition.