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Civil Liberties Convening for Legal and Technology Leaders

January 12, 2017 Twitter HQ, San Francisco

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Welcome

Vijaya Gadde

General Counsel | Twitter

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OpeningRemarks

Elisa Della-Piana

Legal Director | Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area

Christine Sun

Legal and Policy Director | ACLU of Northern California

Promoting Environmental Rights

Michael Wall

Co-Director of Litigation | Natural Resources Defense Council

Natural Resources Defense Council

the earth’s best defense

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Health, Communities, Environment

What we are fighting for

• All people have a right to clean air,

safe water, and a healthy environment

• Polluters to fix the harm they cause
• Our children to inherit a livable planet

Our Values, Under Attack

The threat we face

• Anti-science, climate

deniers

• Emboldened polluters
• A disempowered

public

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Environmental Rights, Environmental Justice

Our Task

 Stopping rollbacks  Protecting communities  Promoting transparency and accountability

Fighting Back

What we must do

 Win in the courts  Tell compelling stories  Mobilize the public

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Our Needs

 Litigation  Online toolkits to support localized advocacy  Using technology and analytics to break through the noise  Big data infrastructure development

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Safeguarding Privacy and Free Speech

Nicole Ozer

Technology & Civil Liberties Policy Director| ACLU of California

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Trump will have keys to massive surveillance infrastructure.

Our key defenses

 Understand the Big Picture  REVEAL Surveillance  RESIST Surveillance & Protect Dissent  BUILD for New Threat Model - stronger local, state & company protections

REVEAL

Sunlight is a strong disinfectant

REVEAL: Transparency Reports

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Knowing is half the battle...

• Exposed proposed

Oakland Domain Awareness Center

• Never built

Police surveillance: The US city that beat Big Brother

• Exposed secret

San Jose drone

• Grounded

Police apologize for drone secrecy, promise transparency

• Exposed City of Fresno

Beware Social Media Surveillance

• Dismantled

The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’

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Knowing is half the battle…

• Exposed proposed

Santa Clara County stingray

• Never purchased

A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret

• Exposed secret social

media surveillance around country

• Companies cut off

Police Searches Of Social Media Face Privacy Pushback

• Exposed high levels of

warrantless digital surveillance in CA

• CalECPA enacted-

warrant for all digital info

California is winning the digital privacy fight

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Want to Help Us REVEAL?

PRA & FOIA requests & review & potential litigation Public meeting/local and state policy review More robust & granular transparency reports Infographics/mapping Technology and statistical analysis Systems for faster document review and tracking

Want to join us in RESISTANCE?

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Digital surveillance demands

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Creative leveling-up to CA laws

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Legal support for users

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Technological tools for surveillance self-defense

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KYR surveillance & free speech self- defense – materials and distribution

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Want to Partner with Us in BUILDING?

 California & National surveillance

campaigns

• Oakland, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Berkeley,

Fresno, BART, and others in CA & around country.

 StateECPA  Baking in stronger company

policies & systems for new threat model

• collection, retention, use & disclosure
• privacy & security by default
• protection for dissent and free speech/due

process systems

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Preparing to Protect Immigrants’ Rights Under a Trump Administration

Julia Harumi Mass

Senior Staff Attorney | ACLU of Northern California

Trump’s 10-Point Plan

1. Build a wall. 2. End catch-and-release. 3. Move criminal aliens out day one, in joint operations with local, state, and federal law enforcement. 4. End sanctuary cities. 5. Terminate Obama’s executive actions. Enforce all immigration laws, triple number of ICE agents. 6. Suspend issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur. 7. Ensure that other countries take their people back. 8. Implement biometric entry-exit visa tracking system. 9. Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet.

• 10. Reform legal immigration to serve the best interests
• f America and its workers.

What Can We Expect?

Deporting 11 million people

• More recently – focus on 2-3

million “criminal aliens”

• Includes arrestees and alleged

gang members

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What Does This Mean?

 Neighborhood and Work Place Raids  Use of summary removal procedures  Vast Expansion of Immigration Detention, especially at the border  Increased use of local and state law enforcement, threats to sanctuary cities

The U.S. Immigration “Justice” System

Removal Proceedings

• Civil proceeding – less due process
• Mandatory detention for many minor
• ffenses
• Isolation in detention
• Lack of counsel
• Lack of discretion to provide relief –

disproportionate consequences

Who is impacted?

• Arriving asylum seekers
• Children
• Long term green card holders
• Anyone without authorization,

regardless of length of time in the country

Resistance is Effective

Knowledge is Power

Equipping Communities with Info On:

• How to respond to ICE at home
• How to prepare for a work place raid
• Know your rights with the police
• Know your rights in immigration

proceedings

• Working with schools and local

government to protect data and privacy

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Litigation is Powerful

Constitutional Violations

• Significant current research needs: rights
• f schools, clinics, private parties
• Freedom of Information Act litigation
• Enjoining racial profiling, 4th Amendment,

due process violations – fed and local

• Challenging new regulations
• Individual damages actions – as many as

we can file!

Preparation is Key

• Red cards
• United Way
• Network of

Immigration Attorneys

2007 – 2008 Model

Infrastructure

• Intake
• Data management

Legal Representation

• Immediate consultation –

expertise needed

• Suppression Motions (pro bono
• pportunity)
• Appeals (pro bono
• pportunity)

Current Needs

Our Response to Raids

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Our Wish List

SPACE, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY

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Production and dissemination of public education material – especially to rural communities

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Office space for many near immigration court (630 Sansome/100 Montgomery)

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Security services for data systems, email

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Database for managing intake, pro bono assignments in immigration cases

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Funding to increase removal defense staff, for office space and resources

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LEGAL RESOURCES

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Community-based KYR presentations

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Increase pool of immigration attorneys through secundment

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Interpreter services to support pro bono participation

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Challenging constitutional violations in:

• Individual suppression motions
• Immigration court appeals
• Damages cases (at border and beyond)
• Impact litigation + advance research

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Nationwide need, nationwide opportunities

Our Wish List

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Protecting Muslim Communities

Aarti Kohli

Executive Director| Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus

Community Impact

What is a Muslim Registry?

NSEERS 2002 83,000 Registered 13,000 Deported Framework Rescinded 2016

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

 NSEERS AGAIN?  SURVEILLANCE  IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES

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GETTING READY

 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT  STATE AND LOCAL POLICY ADVOCACY  LITIGATION AND LEGAL SERVICES

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HOW CAN YOU HELP?

 DATA AND SURVEILLANCE SECURITY  CREATING AND PROMOTING CONTENT  TRANSLATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS  PRO BONO SUPPORT

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Preserving the Social Safety Net

Rebekah Evenson

Director of Litigation & Advocacy

Protima Pandey

Managing Attorney Bay Area Legal Aid

What if he was your grandparent?

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Keep families together… …and free from discrimination

Help a Survivor Find Safety

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Help Us Preserve the Safety Net

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Attorneys on Assignment at BayLegal

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Co-Counsel on Impact Litigation

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Public Policy Analysis

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Clinics

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Statistical Analysis

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Print and Online Graphics

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Closing Remarks

Tirien Steinbach

Executive Director | East Bay Community Law Center

Abdi Soltani

Executive Director | ACLU of Northern California

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