Protecting Civil Liberties and Public Safety in an Age of Terror” Monday, November 14 from 6-8:30pm in Tudor Room at the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, 78 N Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603. A panel discussion to address public concern about potential terrorist activity and to review procedures that are in place intended to keep us safe while at the same time respecting the rule of law, constitutional rights and civil liberties. Panelists will explore why protecting civil rights domestically is important to fighting terrorism. Panelists include: Mariko Hirose, senior staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, with a focus on statewide civil rights and civil liberties impact litigation and on cases involving free speech, privacy, government transparency and criminal justice. Chief inspector John Hodges with the Westchester County Police Department’s counter terrorism unit will review recent steps taken in regional security coordination and intelligence gathering. Pace Law Professor Thomas McDonnell is an expert in international human rights, the law of war, and the war on terrorism. The panel will be moderated by Pace Law Professor David Dorfman. The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Pace Criminal Justice Institute, WESPAC, the Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia and the Westchester Coalition for Police Reform. For more information, please contact the Pace Criminal Justice Institute Director Lissa Griffin at lgriffin@law.pace.edu. Parking is available on campus for those attending this event.