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Brennan Center Urges Facebook to Provide Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship
The Brennan Center and over 90 other civil rights and digital rights organizations signed on to an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg to add transparency and accountability to Facebook’s content removal process.

November 15, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Transparency & Accountability
Brennan Center to HHS: Don’t Use Kids as “Bait” to Deport Families
The Brennan Center, along with thirteen other partner civil rights and privacy advocacy organizations, submitted comments to HHS and DHS on November 6, 2018, opposing a proposed rule change that would codify the practice of using personal data provided by potential sponsors for unaccompanied children to drive deportation efforts.

November 7, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
League of Women Voters of Florida and Brennan Center Letter to Florida Officials
The League of Women Voters of Florida and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law wrote a letter to officials in Florida about the need to expand opportunities for eligible voters to cast a ballot after Hurricane Michael.

October 22, 2018
Voting Rights & Elections
Brennan Center Submits Comments on NPS Proposal to Implement Fees and Restrictions on D.C. Protests
The Brennan Center submitted comments to the National Park Service on proposed changes to regulations governing protests in national parks in Washington, D.C. The proposed revisions would severely limit the First Amendment freedoms of demonstrators in our nation’s capital.

October 16, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Transparency & Accountability
Checks & Balances
Brennan Center Urges Rejection of State Department Proposal to Collect Social Media and Other Data from Visa Applicants
On September 27, 2018, the Brennan Center sent a letter to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) urging the rejection of the State Department’s proposal to ask visa applicants to provide social media identifiers, telephone numbers, and email addresses used in the past five years, among other information.

October 2, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Transparency & Accountability
Testimony Urging Financial Support for Replacement of Paperless Voting Machines in Pennsylvania
Liz Howard
The Brennan Center submitted testimony before the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee urging the state to provide immediate financial support to local and state election officials in their efforts to replace paperless voting machines.

September 27, 2018
Voting Rights & Elections
Voting Machines & Ballot Design
Securing American Elections From Foreign Interference
Brennan Center Submits Comments on DHS Plan to Collect and Store Biometric Information for Immigration Database
The Brennan Center, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the agency’s proposal to create a new system of records that would collect and store sensitive biometric and biographic information about individuals seeking immigration benefits and other residents of the United States, including U.S. citizens.

August 31, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Transparency & Accountability
Brennan Center Joins Coalition Letter to New York City’s Automated Decision Systems Task Force
On August 17, the Brennan Center joined a coalition letter to New York City’s Automated Decision Systems Task Force, recommending policies and procedures to govern the use of algorithmic systems in city government.

August 20, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Transparency & Accountability
NASED Election Security Grants Update
NASED presentation on 2018 HAVA Election Security Grants.

July 16, 2018
Securing American Elections From Foreign Interference
Letter to Senate Leaders on FIRST STEP Act
The prison reform bill being considered by Congress includes several important improvements, but in a letter to Senate leadership the Brennan Center notes that any true reform effort must take steps to reduce the number of people entering prison in the first place.

July 10, 2018
Justice for All
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Closing the Justice Gap
Racial Justice

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Brennan Center Urges Facebook to Provide Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship

Brennan Center to HHS: Don’t Use Kids as “Bait” to Deport Families

League of Women Voters of Florida and Brennan Center Letter to Florida Officials

Brennan Center Submits Comments on NPS Proposal to Implement Fees and Restrictions on D.C. Protests

Brennan Center Urges Rejection of State Department Proposal to Collect Social Media and Other Data from Visa Applicants

Testimony Urging Financial Support for Replacement of Paperless Voting Machines in Pennsylvania

Brennan Center Submits Comments on DHS Plan to Collect and Store Biometric Information for Immigration Database

Brennan Center Joins Coalition Letter to New York City’s Automated Decision Systems Task Force

NASED Election Security Grants Update

Letter to Senate Leaders on FIRST STEP Act

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