Sandra coordinates Free Press Action’s legislative outreach and lobbying efforts. She focuses on open-internet issues including Net Neutrality and privacy, with a focus on law enforcement’s use of surveillance technology to target protesters and communities of color. Before joining Free Press, she served as a legislative assistant in the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington office, where she focused on First Amendment and privacy issues, including Net Neutrality, minority media ownership, government-spying programs, and updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Prior to that, she served as a research associate for a 2008 congressional campaign in Maryland and worked in Discovery Communications’ government-relations group. Sandra earned a degree in political science from the University of Maryland.
Expert Analysis
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Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to reauthorize dangerous spying authorities in the Patriot Act. And the vote could happen any day.
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There’s an urgent need for reform — especially in light of the Trump administration’s history of targeting activists and journalists who oppose its policies.
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The coalition believes the paper may claim that protected Black political speech should be considered an indicator of criminal conduct or a national-security threat.
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Industry lobbyists and some journalists have claimed that the bill to revive Net Neutrality is DOA in the House — but that’s simply not true.
News
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The bill would force law enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain a warrant before getting information from data brokers.
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The bill would ban government agencies from buying the personal information of people in the United States from data brokers without a court order.
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Federal agencies have exploited legal loopholes to collect massive amounts of personal information from cellphone and internet users.
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If the president is serious about racial equity, he must change how Black activists are policed.
Stories
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This year’s Color of Surveillance conference underscored how low-income folks have never enjoyed the right to privacy the elite have demanded for themselves.
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One theme was how the U.S. government has long used junk science and fear-inducing messaging to justify criminalizing immigrant communities.
