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End Racial Profiling Act of 2011
Legislative Progress
Introduced
December 8, 2011
Latest Action
January 6, 2012
Primary Sponsor
John Conyers, Jr.Democratic(MI)
Momentum (last 30 days)
0
score
0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes
Speed vs cohort
75pct
29d open
vs 6,662 other HR bills in the 112th — cohort avg 39d
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2016 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment non discrimination act. HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states. Equality Act HR3185. Lobbied to support ensuring consistency in employers to make workplace fairness. Voting Rights Advancement Act HR2867. Lobbied in support of amending the Voting Rights Act to allow a representative of an Indian tribe to request polling place on tribal land. Smarter Sentencing Act S. 502/HR 920. Lobbied in support of reducing mandatory minimum sentencing for controlled substances. Second Chance Act S 1513. Lobbied in support of re-entry programs and services. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act S1169. Lobbied in support of re-authorization of this bill. SAFE Justice Act HR 2944. Lobbied in support of improving federal sentencing guidelines. Adam Walsh Act HR 4472.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment non discrimination act. HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states. Equality Act HR3185. Lobbied to support ensuring consistency in employers to make workplace fairness. Voting Rights Advancement Act HR2867. Lobbied in support of amending the Voting Rights Act to allow a representative of an Indian tribe to request polling place on tribal land. Smarter Sentencing Act S. 502/HR 920. Lobbied in support of reducing mandatory minimum sentencing for controlled substances. Second Chance Act S 1513. Lobbied in support of re-entry programs and services. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act S1169. Lobbied in support of re-authorization of this bill. SAFE Justice Act HR 2944. Lobbied in support of improving federal sentencing guidelines. Adam Walsh Act HR 4472.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment non discrimination act. HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states. Equality Act HR3185. Lobbied to support ensuring consistency in employers to make workplace fairness. Voting Rights Advancement Act HR2867. Lobbied in support of amending the Voting Rights Act to allow a representative of an Indian tribe to request polling place on tribal land. Smarter Sentencing Act S. 502/HR 920. Lobbied in support of reducing mandatory minimum sentencing for controlled substances. Second Chance Act S 1513. Lobbied in support of re-entry programs and services. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act S1169. Lobbied in support of re-authorization of this bill. SAFE Justice Act HR 2944. Lobbied in support of improving federal sentencing guidelines. Adam Walsh Act HR 4472.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment non discrimination act. HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states. Equality Act HR3185. Lobbied to support ensuring consistency in employers to make workplace fairness. Voting Rights Advancement Act HR2867. Lobbied in support of amending the Voting Rights Act to allow a representative of an Indian tribe to request polling place on tribal land. Smarter Sentencing Act S. 502/HR 920. Lobbied in support of reducing mandatory minimum sentencing for controlled substances. Second Chance Act S 1513. Lobbied in support of re-entry programs and services. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act S1169. Lobbied in support of re-authorization of this bill. SAFE Justice Act HR 2944. Lobbied in support of improving federal sentencing guidelines. Adam Walsh Act HR 4472.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment non discrimination act. HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2014 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: EO12333, United States intelligence activities-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance. EO13665, Rulemaking on Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. EO13672, Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity-Issues Lobbied:Religious Liberty, LGBT Rights. EO13673, Rulemaking on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S84, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act-Issues Lobbied:Mental Health and Criminal Justice. S444, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013-Issues Lobbied:Guantanamo Bay.S607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. S678, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice.S777, MARCH for Military Women Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S813, Peace Corps Equity Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Womens Rights. S987, Free Flow of Information Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. S1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices. S1069, Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S1236, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S1307, The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice. S1410, Smarter Sentencing Act-Issues Lobbied:Mandatory Minimums. S1599, USA Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. S1631, FISA Improvements Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. S1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:BOP Reform. S1690, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Reentry and PREA Amendment. S1696, Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S1847, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Guantanamo Bay. S1945, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2024, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S2199, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S2235, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2410, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Religion and Belief, Women's Rights. S2499, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY 2015-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S2520, FOIA Improvement Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Government Transparency. S2531, Better Options for Kids Act-Issues Lobbied:School Discipline, School-to-Prison Pipeline. S2536, Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. S2550, Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2567, REDEEM Act-Issues Lobbied:Criminal Records and Juvenile Solitary Confinement. S2588, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act-Issues Lobbied:Cybersecurity. S2611, HUMANE Act-Issues Lobbied:Immigration. S2644, Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Due Process. S2685, USA Freedom Act 2014-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance. S2687, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S2904, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied:Law Enforcement Militarization. S2919, Copyright and Marriage Equality Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. SJReS19, Constitutional amendment to limit 1A on political speech-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR20, Government By the People Act-Issues Lobbied:Campaign finance reform. HR57, Transparency in Policing Act-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. HR83, Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance, Criminal Justice Reform, Immigration, Civil Rights, Reproductive Rights. HR148, DISCLOSE Act-Issues Lobbied:Campaign finance reform. HR377, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. HR401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act-Issues Lobbied:Mental Health and Criminal Justice. HR637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. HR983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. HR1318, The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice. HR1447, Death in Custody Reporting Act-Issues Lobbied:Criminal Justice. HR1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR1962, Free Flow of Information Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Womens Rights. HR2028, Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR2523, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR3361, USA Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. HR3382, Smarter Sentencing Act-Issues Lobbied:Mandatory Minimums. HR3465, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Re-entry and PREA Amendment. HR3471, Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices. HR3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Disability Rights, Access to Justice, Privacy Rights. HR3829, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR3899, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. HR3979, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015-Issues Lobbied:National Defense, Religious Liberty. HR4225, Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR4291, FISA Transparency & Modernization Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. HR4435, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Religion and Belief. HR4459, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. HR4578, Peace Corps Equity Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR4752, To limit ability of FCC to reclassify broadband-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR5005, Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act-Issues Lobbied:School Discipline, Corporal Punishment, Racial Justice, Disability Rights. HR5013, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY 2015-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR5091, Drone Reform Act-Issues Lobbied:National security. HR5114, HUMANE Act-Issues Lobbied:Unaccompanied Alien Children. HR5212, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. HR5478, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied:Militarization of Law Enforcement. HR5524, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR5617, Copyright and Marriage Equality Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR5759, Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Immigration. HR5865, Camera Authorization and Maintenance Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. Congressional Issues without Bill Numbers: Omnibus crime bill-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform. Department of Defense 1033 program-Issues Lobbied: Militarization of Law Enforcement. Marriage Equality-Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. Gender-biased Policing-Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Reform. Surveillance Reform-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. Whistleblower Protections-Issues Lobbied: National Security. Peace Corps Reproductive Coverage-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Convention Against Torture interpretation-Issues Lobbied: Torture. Immigration Alternatives to Detention-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program-Issues Lobbied: Torture. Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Family Detention-Issues Lobbied: Immigration.Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order-Issues Lobbied: Employment Rights. Religious Accommodations in the Military-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. War Powers-Issues Lobbied: National Defense. Executive Orders on Immigration-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Border Enforcement Reform-Issues Lobbied: Border Enforcement. Congressional investigation into interaction between National Resources Defense Council and EPA-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Countering Violence Extremism Initiatives-Issues Lobbied: White House Summit on Countering Violence Extremism. Watchlisting Reform-Issues Lobbied: National Security. Charity Delisting/Humanitarian Aid-Issues Lobbied: Charity Delisting. Locating Tracking-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. License Plate Readers-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. Racial Profiling Guidance-Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Reform. Wireless E911 Location Tracking-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. More information added on addendum pages.
2014 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: EO12333, United States intelligence activities-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance. EO13665, Rulemaking on Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. EO13672, Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity-Issues Lobbied:Religious Liberty, LGBT Rights. EO13673, Rulemaking on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S84, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act-Issues Lobbied:Mental Health and Criminal Justice. S444, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013-Issues Lobbied:Guantanamo Bay.S607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. S678, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice.S777, MARCH for Military Women Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S813, Peace Corps Equity Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Womens Rights. S987, Free Flow of Information Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. S1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices. S1069, Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S1236, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S1307, The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice. S1410, Smarter Sentencing Act-Issues Lobbied:Mandatory Minimums. S1599, USA Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. S1631, FISA Improvements Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. S1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:BOP Reform. S1690, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Reentry and PREA Amendment. S1696, Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S1847, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Guantanamo Bay. S1945, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2024, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. S2199, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights. S2235, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2410, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Religion and Belief, Women's Rights. S2499, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY 2015-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S2520, FOIA Improvement Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Government Transparency. S2531, Better Options for Kids Act-Issues Lobbied:School Discipline, School-to-Prison Pipeline. S2536, Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. S2550, Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. S2567, REDEEM Act-Issues Lobbied:Criminal Records and Juvenile Solitary Confinement. S2588, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act-Issues Lobbied:Cybersecurity. S2611, HUMANE Act-Issues Lobbied:Immigration. S2644, Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Due Process. S2685, USA Freedom Act 2014-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance. S2687, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. S2904, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied:Law Enforcement Militarization. S2919, Copyright and Marriage Equality Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. SJReS19, Constitutional amendment to limit 1A on political speech-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR20, Government By the People Act-Issues Lobbied:Campaign finance reform. HR57, Transparency in Policing Act-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. HR83, Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015-Issues Lobbied:Surveillance, Criminal Justice Reform, Immigration, Civil Rights, Reproductive Rights. HR148, DISCLOSE Act-Issues Lobbied:Campaign finance reform. HR377, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. HR401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act-Issues Lobbied:Mental Health and Criminal Justice. HR637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. HR983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Privacy. HR1318, The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice. HR1447, Death in Custody Reporting Act-Issues Lobbied:Criminal Justice. HR1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR1962, Free Flow of Information Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied:Womens Rights. HR2028, Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR2523, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR3361, USA Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. HR3382, Smarter Sentencing Act-Issues Lobbied:Mandatory Minimums. HR3465, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Re-entry and PREA Amendment. HR3471, Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied:Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices. HR3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013-Issues Lobbied:Disability Rights, Access to Justice, Privacy Rights. HR3829, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR3899, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. HR3979, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015-Issues Lobbied:National Defense, Religious Liberty. HR4225, Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR4291, FISA Transparency & Modernization Act-Issues Lobbied:National Security. HR4435, National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied:Religion and Belief. HR4459, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied:Voting Rights. HR4578, Peace Corps Equity Act-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR4752, To limit ability of FCC to reclassify broadband-Issues Lobbied:First Amendment. HR5005, Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act-Issues Lobbied:School Discipline, Corporal Punishment, Racial Justice, Disability Rights. HR5013, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY 2015-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR5091, Drone Reform Act-Issues Lobbied:National security. HR5114, HUMANE Act-Issues Lobbied:Unaccompanied Alien Children. HR5212, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. HR5478, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied:Militarization of Law Enforcement. HR5524, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Reproductive Rights. HR5617, Copyright and Marriage Equality Act-Issues Lobbied:LGBT Rights. HR5759, Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Immigration. HR5865, Camera Authorization and Maintenance Act of 2014-Issues Lobbied:Police Reform. Congressional Issues without Bill Numbers: Omnibus crime bill-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform. Department of Defense 1033 program-Issues Lobbied: Militarization of Law Enforcement. Marriage Equality-Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. Gender-biased Policing-Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Reform. Surveillance Reform-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. Whistleblower Protections-Issues Lobbied: National Security. Peace Corps Reproductive Coverage-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Convention Against Torture interpretation-Issues Lobbied: Torture. Immigration Alternatives to Detention-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program-Issues Lobbied: Torture. Womens Health Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Family Detention-Issues Lobbied: Immigration.Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order-Issues Lobbied: Employment Rights. Religious Accommodations in the Military-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. War Powers-Issues Lobbied: National Defense. Executive Orders on Immigration-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Border Enforcement Reform-Issues Lobbied: Border Enforcement. Congressional investigation into interaction between National Resources Defense Council and EPA-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Countering Violence Extremism Initiatives-Issues Lobbied: White House Summit on Countering Violence Extremism. Watchlisting Reform-Issues Lobbied: National Security. Charity Delisting/Humanitarian Aid-Issues Lobbied: Charity Delisting. Locating Tracking-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. License Plate Readers-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. Racial Profiling Guidance-Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Reform. Wireless E911 Location Tracking-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. More information to be added upon access to addendum pages.
2014 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment Non Discrimination Act HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2014 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618. Lobbied in support of this bill. Employment Non Discrimination Act HR3014. Lobbied in support of passing this act to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for Marriage Act HR3567. Lobbied in support of repealing the defense of marriage act and providing federal recognition of same sex marriages issued by states. Uniting American Families Act HR1024 and S424. Lobbied for allowing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States who cannot get married and who's marriages are not recognized under federal law to sponsor partners for citizenship and permanent residency. Comprehensive Immigration Reform HR2892 and S3932. Lobbied in support of this bill. The Dream Act HR6497. Lobbied in support of a path to citizenship, higher education and the military. Housing Non Discrimination Act HR4828. Lobbied in support of amending the Fair Housing act to prohibit housing discrimination based on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and the civil rights act of 1964 to prohibit such discrimination in housing accomodations and public facilities and for the other purposes. Safe Schools Improvement Act HR2262. Lobbied in support of instructing school districts to implement anti-harrassment policies that specifically include sexual orientation and gender identity, provide funding for anti-bullying programs and require states to collect data on bullying and harrassment in schools.
Client expense: $13,663 · Firm income: Not reported
2014 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: EO 13665, Rulemaking on Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. EO 13673, Rulemaking on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights.Legislation Cont.: H.J. Res. 50, Parental Rights Amendment - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Implications of Parental Rights Amendment. H.R. 1262, A bill to amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Domestic Drones. H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy and Location Tracking. H.R. 1318, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice. H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act & Numerous CFR Measures and Constitutional Amendments - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform. H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana. H.R. 1575, Kelsey Smith Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Personal/Data Privacy. H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Basic Rights and Liberties. H.R. 1772, Legal Workforce Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 1852, Email Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 2028, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, LGBT Parenting. H.R. 2175, World War II Memorial Prayer Act - Issues Lobbied: Religion & Belief. H.R. 2397, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Guantanamo Bay. H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships. H.R. 3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; LGBT Rights. H.R. 3361, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. H.R. 3382, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Sentencing Reform. H.R. 3465, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reentry. H.R. 3471, Womens Health Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Police Practices. H.R. 3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Access to Justice; Privacy Rights. H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. H.R. 3829, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships. H.R. 3899, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice. H.R. 4215, Federal Agency Data Breach Notification Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 4225, Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. H.R. 4291, FISA Transparency & Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security. H.R. 4435, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religion & Belief. H.R. 4459, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 4578, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 4752, To limit ability of FCC to reclassify broadband - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. H.R. 4870, House Defense Appropriations Bill - Issues Lobbied: 702 surveillance. H.R. 4989, Justinas Law. H.R. 5005, Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: School Discipline; Corporal Punishment; Racial Justice; Disability Rights. H.R. 5013, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Lifting Ban on Peace Corps Abortion Coverage. H.R. 5016, Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015 - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality. H.R. 5051, Protect Womens Health from Corporate Interference Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 5091, Drone Reform Act - Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killings; National Security. H.R. 5114, Helping Unaccompanied Minors and Alleviating National Emergency (HUMANE) Act - Issues Lobbied: Unaccompanied Immigrant children; Due Process; Funding for Immigration Courts; Border Enforcement; Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA). H.R. 5212, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Asset Forfeiture. H.R. 5230, Supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Family Detention; Deportations; Legal Counsel; Funding for Immigration Courts; Border Enforcement; Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA). H.R. 5240, CORRECT Act - Issues Lobbied: Declassification, Privacy. H.R. 5272, A bill to prohibit certain actions with respect to deferred action for aliens - Issues Lobbied: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program; Immigration. H.R. 5285, Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Religious Liberty. H.R. 5478, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Militarization. H.R. 5524, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 5617, Copyright and Marriage Equality Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance. H.R. 964, Respect States and Citizens Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana. H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.2397, Department of Defense Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security and Detention. S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Police Practices. S. 1044, World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. S. 1057, Safeguarding Privacy and Fostering Aerospace Innovation Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 1069, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, LGBT Parenting. S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights.Legislation Cont.: S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships. S. 1307, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice. S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Sentencing Reform. S. 1599, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. S. 1631, FISA Improvements Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security. S. 1639, Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Reform; BOP Reform. S. 1690, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reentry. S. 1696, Womens Health Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S. 1808, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT. S. 1945, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S. 2024, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships. S. 2076, Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Religious Liberty. S. 2199, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. S. 2235, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S. 2399, Native Voting Rights Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S. 2410, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Religious Liberty. S. 2499, State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Lifting Ban on Peace Corps Abortion Coverage. S. 2526, DISCLOSE Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. S. 2531, Better Options for Kids Act - Issues Lobbied: School discipline; School-to-Prison Pipeline. S. 2536, SAVE Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. S. 2550, Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S. 2567, Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Records and Juvenile Solitary Confinement. S. 2578, Protect Womens Health from Corporate Interference Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S. 2611, Helping Unaccompanied Minors and Alleviating National Emergency (HUMANE) Act - Issues Lobbied: Unaccompanied Immigrant children; Due Process; Funding for Immigration Courts; Border Enforcement; Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA). S. 2644, Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Asset Forfeiture. S. 2648, The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Family Detention; Deportations; Legal Counsel; Funding for Immigration Courts; Border Enforcement; Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA). S. 2685, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. S. 2687, Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. S. 2779, Expatriate Terrorists Act - Issues Lobbied: Revocation of U.S. Citizenship. S. 2904, Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Law Enforcement Militarization. S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy. S. 444, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Guantanamo Bay; National Security; Indefinite Detention. S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums. S. 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy and Location Tracking. S. 678, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice. S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Basic Rights and Liberties. S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights. S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. S.162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice. S. 777, MARCH for Military Women Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S.J. Res 19, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Congressional Issues Lobbied without Bill Numbers: Abortion Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Access to Emergency Contraception in IHS Facilities - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Authorization for Use of Force Against ISIS - Issues Lobbied: National Security. Authorization for Use of Military Force - Issues Lobbied: National Security. Big Data Civil Rights Principles - Issues Lobbied: Privacy and Civil Rights, Discrimination. Border Enforcement Supplemental Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Border Enforcement, Excessive Use of Force - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Buckhannon Fix - Issues Lobbied: Freedom of Information Act. Campaign Finance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Contraceptive Coverage Bill - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, Border Militarization, Torture. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights Treaty Ratification. Copyright Succession for LGBT Spouses - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. CORRECT Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment.Congressional Issues Lobbied without Bill Numbers Cont.: Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice. Customs and Border Protection 100-mile rule - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: Internet Privacy. Department of Defense Contraception Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Draft resolution regarding LGBT discrimination in Congress - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. Draft Resolution Regarding LGBT Discrimination in Congress - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. Election Administration - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Family Detention - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Federal Over-Criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums. Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Force Multiplier Act - Issues Lobbied: Information Sharing. Government Use of Datamining Technologies - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Guantanamo Bay - Issues Lobbied: Indefinite Detention. Immigration. June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling; Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Police Practices. Juvenile Solitary Confinement - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. LGBT Employment Discrimination - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights. Library Internet Content Filtering - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Location Tracking - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Militarization of Police - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Operation Streamline - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Over-Criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. Over-Criminalization Task Force - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. Oversight of Executive Branch Actions to Comply with International Human Rights Treaty Obligations (US Helsinki Commission - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. Peace Corps Reproductive Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. Police Militarization - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. Potential changes to RFRA - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. Prison Reform - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. Privacy & Civil Liberties at US Airports - Issues Lobbied: Privacy & Civil Liberties at US Airports. Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Privacy Multistakeholder Process - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Privacy Pledge. Private Prisons - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice. REAL ID - Issues Lobbied: Privacy. Report on CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation - Issues Lobbied: National Security. Reporter Shield - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Reproductive Health Care Refusals at Catholic-affiliated Hospitals - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. Rules Transparency. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program - Issues Lobbied: National Security. Stand Your Ground Laws - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Racial Profiling. Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; National Secuirty. Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; National Security. Torture Report - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, National Security. Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Human Trafficking. Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) crisis - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Unaccompanied Minors - Issues Lobbied: Immigration. Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Voting Rights. War Authority - Issues Lobbied: National Security. Weldon Amendment - Issues Lobbied: Abortion rights. Womens Rights. Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Solitary Confinement; Access to Counsel; Juvenile Solitary Confinement; Private Prisons. Central Intelligence Agency - Issues Lobbied: Signals Intelligence; Global surveillance; Internet Freedom and Human Rights Law. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Issues Lobbied: Financial Privacy, Consumer Complaint Narratives. Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; Privacy; Location Tracking. Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: National Security and Torture; EO 12333 and Section 702 Surveillance; National Security issues raised under international human rights treaties and in connection with United Nations reviews on the Convention Against Torture and Universal Periodic Review; Law Enforcement Militarization; Religious Accommodation in the Military; Spousal Benefits; Force feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights Data Collection Comments; Disparate Treatment for Disabled Students of Color. Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: US Compliance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act RIN 0938-AS50 and RIN 0938-AR42; Access to Reproductive Health Services for Unaccompanied Minors in ORR Custody; Abortion Insurance Coverage; PREA. Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: National ID; Employment Verification; Privacy; Laptop Search; Unaccompanied Minors; Immigration (Office of Inspector General); Private Prisons (Office of Inspector General); Detention; Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Family Detention; Treatment of Refugee Women and Children/Victims of Violence; Federal Administrative Immigration Enforcement Reform (Deportations, Detention, Due Process, Detainers, Appointed Counsel); Federal Administrative Immigration Relief; ICE Enforcement Issues; Federal Immigration Reform (Border enforcement, Use of Force, Legalization); Bond Hearings; National Security issues raised under international human rights treaties and in connection with United Nations reviews on the Convention Against Torture and Universal Periodic Review; US Compliance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 3618, S. 1030);Agencies Lobbied Cont.: June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; Immigration Detention of Transgender Individual; Criminal Exclusions. Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: US Compliance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Fair Housing; Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Commutations and Pardons; Police Militarization; Watchlisting Reform; National Security and Torture; Fourth Amendment; Privacy; Location Tracking; Civil Rights; Discrimination; Unaccompanied Minors; EO 12333 and Section 702 Surveillance; Family Detention; Treatment of Refugee Women and Children/Victims of Violence; Federal Administrative Immigration Enforcement Reform (Deportations, Detention, Due Process, Detainers, Appointed Counsel); Federal Administrative Immigration Relief; ICE Enforcement Issues; Federal Immigration Reform (Border enforcement, Use of Force, Legalization); Prison Rape Elimination Act; National Security Issues raised under CAT; Contraception for Native American Women; Employment Discrimination against LGBT People of Color; Housing Access and Implementation of VAWA; Implementation of Fair Labor Standards Act for Home Care Workers; Revision of DoJ Guidance on Use of Race; Signals Intelligence; Global Surveillance; Internet Freedom and Human Rights Law; Federal Infrastructure for Domestic Implementation of Human Rights Obligations; US Compliance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 3618, S. 1030); Juvenile Life without Parole; Federal Over-Criminalization; DOJ Media Guidelines & Regulations; 2007 OLC Memo on RFRA; Spousal Benefits; Marriage Recognition; Disparity for Pregnant Defendants; Special Litigation. Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act RIN 0938-AS50 and RIN 0938-AR42; DOL Rule: Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to Domestic Service; Rulemaking on OFCCP Wage Compensation Data Collection Tool; Rulemaking on Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages (EO 13665); Rulemaking on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (EO 13673). Department of State - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Discrimination; Children's Rights; National Security and Torture; Human Rights Law; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; National Security issues raised under international human rights treaties and in connection with United Nations reviews on the Convention Against Torture and Universal Periodic Review; Global surveillance; Internet Freedom and Human Rights Law; Signals Intelligence; U.S. government Involvement in the Organization of American States and Inter American Rights System. Department of Treasury - Issues Lobbied: IRS c4 Rulemaking. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: . Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killings; Guantanamo Bay; Authorization for Use of Military Force; Domestic Implementation of Human Rights Obligations; Countering Violent Extremism Domestic Counterterror Programs; Cybersecurity; LGBT Non-discrimination Employment EO; Worker Rights; UPR; Abortion Funding; LGBT Rights; Law Enforcement Bias; Federal Contractor Non-discrimination; DACA Healthcare; Border Enforcement; Immigration Healthcare; Police Militarization; Executive Action on Immigration; Radicalization; Family Detention. Federal Aviation Association - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Armed Drones. Federal Bureau of Investigation - Issues Lobbied: White House Review of Surveillance Practices (vis-a-vis targeted surveillance of American Muslim communities); Domestic Spying. Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; IP Transition; E-Rate Rulemaking; Open Internet Rule; JSA/SSA Order; Net Neutrality; Media Diversity; Harris Corp.. Federal Trade Commission - Issues Lobbied: Privacy and Civil Rights; Discrimination. Internal Revenue Service - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; Privacy; Location Tracking; Petition for IRS Rulemaking on 501c4; IRS c4 Rulemaking; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act RIN 0938-AS50 and RIN 0938-AR42. National Security Agency - Issues Lobbied: EO 12333 and Section 702 Surveillance; Signals Intelligence; Global surveillance; Internet Freedom and Human Rights Law. National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Consumer Privacy. Office Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: EO 12333 and Section 702 Surveillance; White House Review of Surveillance Practices (vis-a-vis targeted surveillance of American Muslim communities); National Security issues raised under international human rights treaties and in connection with United Nations reviews on the Convention Against Torture and Universal Periodic Review; Signals Intelligence; Global surveillance; Internet Freedom and Human Rights Law; Domestic Spying. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Non-discrimination. Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; National ID; Law Enforcement Militarization; Budget and Appropriations Issues. Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance. Securities and Exchange Commission - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; Privacy; Location Tracking. Social Security Administration - Issues Lobbied: Spousal Benefits. Transportation Security Administration - Issues Lobbied: Privacy & Civil Liberties at US Airports; SPOT Program. U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: Border Enforcement; Excessive Use of Force; Conditions of Custody; PREA; Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Family Detention; Treatment of Refugee Women and Children/Victims of Violence; Federal Immigration Reform (Legalization); CBP Border Reform; Access to Reproductive Health Services for Unaccompanied Minors in ORR Custody. U.S. Forest Service - Issues Lobbied: Forest Service Rule.Agencies Lobbied Cont.: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Detention; Unaccompanied Immigrant Children; Family Detention; Treatment of Refugee Women and Children/Victims of Violence; Federal Administrative Immigration Enforcement Reform (Deportations, Detention, Due Process, Detainers, Appointed Counsel); ICE Enforcement Issues; Immigration Detention of Transgender Individual. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Reforms. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Issues Lobbied: Gene Patenting. U.S. Sentencing Commission - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Reform; Reductions in the Drug Quantity Table. United States Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership. White House - Issues Lobbied: Commutations and Pardons; Human Rights; Discrimination; Children's Rights; Unaccompanied Minors; Detention (White House Policy Council and National Security Council); Pregnancy Discrimination; International Abortion Coverage/Helms Amendment; Family Detention; Treatment of Refugee Women and Children/Victims of Violence; Federal Administrative Immigration Enforcement Reform (Deportations, Detention, Due Process, Detainers, Appointed Counsel); Federal Administrative Immigration Relief; ICE Enforcement Issues; Federal Immigration Reform (Border enforcement, Use of Force, Legalization); Sentencing Reform and Clemency Project 2014; Domestic Implementation of Human Rights Obligations (Domestic Policy Council); International Aid for Development of the Internet (Office of Science and Technology Policy); End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 3618, S. 1030); June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; My Brothers Keeper Initiative; Law Enforcement Militarization (Domestice Policy Council); Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending); Rulemaking on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (EO 13673).
2014 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618 and S1670. Lobbied in support of this bill.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2014 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation Lobbied: Executive Order 13636, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending) - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Basic Rights and Liberties; H.R. 1262, A bill to amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 - Issue Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones;Legislation Lobbied (Cont.): H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issue Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 1318, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 1417, Border Security Results Act - Issue Lobbied: Border Enforcement; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act & Numerous Campaign Finance Reform Measures and Constitutional Amendments - Issue Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issue Lobbied: Immigration Reform; H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issue Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Basic Rights and Liberties, Religious Liberties; H.R. 1772, Legal Workforce Act - Issue Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1814, Equitable Access to Care and Health (EACH) Act - Issue Lobbied: Reproductive Freedom, Religious Freedom; H.R. 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 1852, Email Privacy Act - Issue Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issue Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issue Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act - Issue Lobbied: Interior enforcement, Detention; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; H.R. 2586, FISA Court Accountability Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2684, Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2736, Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2761, Presidential Appointment of FISA Court Judges Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2818, Surveillance State Repeal Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2849, Privacy Advocate General Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2872, Border Enforcement, Security, and Technology Act - Issue Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 2999, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 3035, Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3070, NSA Accountability Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3103, Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3130, Protect Family Values at the Border Act - Issue Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issue Lobbied: First Amendment, LGBT Rights; H.R. 3159, Ensuring Adversarial Process in the FISA Court Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3228, FISA Court Reform Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3361, Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act (USA FREEDOM Act) - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; H.R. 3382, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issue Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums, Criminal Justice Reform; H.R. 3431, American Families United Act - Issue Lobbied: Keeping mixed-status families together; H.R. 3465, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Reentry; H.R. 3471, Womens Health Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 3696, National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Disability Rights, Access to Justice, Privacy Rights; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issue Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 3774, Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 3829, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; H.R. 3855, Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3875, Telephone Metadata Reform Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3880, National Security Agency Data Collection Review Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3881, Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3882, National Security Agency Accountability Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3883, Big Brother Is Not Watching You Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 3899, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: Voting Rights; H.R. 3920, American Privacy Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issue Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; H.R. 4124, Protecting Youth from Solitary Confinement Act - Issue Lobbied: Juvenile Solitary; H.R. 4227, Fair Employment Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; H.R. 4240, HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act - Issue Lobbied: Immigration and Health Care;Legislation Lobbied (Cont.): H.R. 4278, Ukraine Support Act - Issue Lobbied: Authorized Use of Military Force, National Security, Material Support; H.R. 4291, FISA Transparency and Modernization Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy; H.R. 4303, Border Enforcement, Accountability, Oversight, and Community Engagement Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: Border enforcement, CBP oversight and excessive use of force; H.R. 4435, National Defense Authorization Act for FY15 - Issue Lobbied: National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 4459, Democracy Restoration Act - Issue Lobbied: Voting Rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Privacy, Drones, Surveillance; H.R. 7, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act - Issue Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 964, Respect States and Citizens Rights Act - Issue Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: Privacy; S. 1016, Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1057, Safeguarding Privacy and Fostering Aerospace Innovation Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: privacy; S. 1086, Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Access to Justice, Police Practices, Racial Profiling, Disparate Impact; S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 1121, Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1168, Restore Our Privacy Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require specific evidence for access to business records and other tangible things, and provide appropriate transition procedures, and for other purposes. - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; S. 1307, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issue Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums, Criminal Justice Reform; S. 1452, Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; S. 1460, FISA Judge Selection Reform Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; S. 1467, FISA Court Reform Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; S. 1551, Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; S. 1596, Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Access to Justice, Police Practices, Racial Profiling, Disparate Impact; S. 1599, Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act (USA FREEDOM Act) - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, Surveillance; S. 162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issue Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; S. 1621, Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1631, FISA Improvements Act - Issue Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties; S. 1639, Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Privacy; S. 1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: Prerelease custody reform, Sentencing Reform; S. 1696, Womens Health Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1752, Military Justice Improvement Act - Issue Lobbied: Womens rights; S. 1808, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issue Lobbied: LGBT; S. 1817, Humane Short Term Custody Act - Issue Lobbied: CBP short-term custody standards; S. 1945, Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: Voting Rights; S. 2024, State Marriage Defense Act of 2014 - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; S. 2036, Keeping All Students Safe Act - Issue Lobbied: School Discipline; S. 2133, Fair Employment Protection Act - Issue Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; S. 2199, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issue Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; S. 2235, Democracy Restoration Act - Issue Lobbied: Voting Rights; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Online privacy; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: Privacy; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issue Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums, Criminal Justice Reform; S. 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issue Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 678, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issue Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issue Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issue Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issue Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Basic Rights and Liberties, Religious Liberties; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issue Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; S. 862, Equitable Access to Care and Health Act (EACH Act) - Issue Lobbied: Reprodutive Freedom, Religious Liberty; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issue Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issue Lobbied: First Amendment; S.1690, Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issue Lobbied: ReentryCongressional Issues Lobbied without Bill Numbers: Disability Rights - Issued Lobbied: Civil Liberties; Abortion Coverage - Issued Lobbied: Reproductive rights; Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issued Lobbied: First Amendment; Birth Control for Military Women - Issued Lobbied: Reproductive rights; Border Accountability - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Border Enforcement - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Broadband Adoption Act - Issued Lobbied: First Amendment; CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Civil Rights Division Vacancies and Oversight - Issued Lobbied: Civil Rights; Access to Justice; Commerce, Justice, and Science Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights, Operation Streamline/ criminal prosecution for illegal entry and re-entry, Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issued Lobbied: National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, State and local immigration enforcement; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issued Lobbied: Access to Justice; Cybersecurity - Issued Lobbied: Privacy, National Security; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations - Issued Lobbied: CBP use of force, Oversight and accountability mechanisms, Privacy, Staffing, Short-term detention facilities, ICE detention bed quota; Department of Homeland Security Oversight - Issued Lobbied: National security,Civil Liberties, Privacy; Disparate Impact, Housing - Issued Lobbied: Racial Justice; DOD Instruction 1300.17 - Issued Lobbied: Religious Liberty; Domestic Drones - Issued Lobbied: Privacy, Armed Drones; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issued Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, Privacy,Location Tracking; Executive Office for Immigration Review Appropriations - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Federal Over-Criminalization - Issued Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Follow the Money Act - Issued Lobbied: First Amendment; Force Multiplier Act - Issued Lobbied: Information Sharing; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issued Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Guantanamo Bay - Issued Lobbied: Human Rights, National Security; ICE Appropriations - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; ICE Detainers; Detention Bed Mandates - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Immigrant Health Care - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Immigration Reform - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Interior and Border Enforcement - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; IRS Tax Exemption Hearing - Issued Lobbied: First Amendment; Juvenile Solitary Confinement - Issued Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; License Plate Readers - Issued Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issued Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Military Abortion coverage - Issued Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issued Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issued Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Equality - Issued Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Military Justice/Military Sexual Assault - Issued Lobbied: Womens Rights; Over-Criminalization - Issued Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; Password Protection - Issued Lobbied: Privacy; Privacy Act - Issued Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Privacy Multistakeholder Process - Issued Lobbied: Privacy; Racial Profiling - Issued Lobbied: Racial Justice; REAL ID - Issued Lobbied: Privacy, National ID; School Discipline - Issued Lobbied: Racial Justice; School-to-Prison Pipeline - Issued Lobbied: Racial Justice; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Torture Report - Issued Lobbied: Torture, National Security, Human Rights; Sentencing Reform - Issued Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; Solitary Confinement - Issued Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; Stand Your Ground Laws - Issued Lobbied: Racial Justice, Racial Profiling; Subpoena Authority - Issued Lobbied: ; Surveillance - Issued Lobbied: Privacy, National Security; The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issued Lobbied: Education; Corporal Punishment; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Torture (SSCI Report) - Issued Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Torture; U.S. Border Appropriations - Issued Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issued Lobbied: Privacy; Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issued Lobbied: First Amendment; Womens Economic Agenda - Issued Lobbied: Womens Rights; Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights - Issued Lobbied: Civil Liberties Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons - Issues Lobbied: Compassionate Release; Solitary Confinement; Juvenile Detention; Mandatory Minimums; Access to Counsel; Juvenile Solitary Confinement; Communication Management Rules; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Issues Lobbied: Debt Collection Practices; Department of Agriculture - Issues Lobbied: RIN 0503-AA52, Docket No. 0503-AA52: Nondiscrimination in Programs or Activities Conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13636; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Military Abortion coverage; National Defense Authorization Act for FY15 (H.R. 4435); Guantanamo Bay; Spousal Benefits; Religious Accomondations; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collections (CRDC); School Discipline Guidance; School-to-Prison Pipeline; Single-Sex Education; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Interior and Border Enforcement; ICE enforcement issues; Federal administrative immigration reform (deportations, detention, due process, detainers, appointed counsel ); Immigration enforcement policy and practice; Border abuse; Access to counsel; Immigration detention; Operation Streamline; Executive Order 13636;Agencies Lobbied (Cont.): Department of Homeland Security Oversight; Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Use of datamining technologies by the government; License Plate Readers; REAL ID; Laptop Searches; Bond Hearings; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Immigration detention bed mandate; TRIG Exemptiopn, CBP Compliant Procedures; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Conditions of Participation and EMTALA; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Interior and Border Enforcement; Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (H.R. 3899/S. 1945); School Discipline Guidance; Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages; Convention for the Elimination of Race Discrimination; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act (S. 678); June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; ICE enforcement issues; Federal administrative immigration reform (deportations, detention, due process, detainers, appointed counsel ); Commutations and Pardons; Standard Minimum Rules for Prisoners; Prison Overcrowding; Juvenile Detention; Police Militarization; Access to counsel; Operation Streamline; DOJ Media Guidelines & Regulations; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act (H.R. 1312/S. 639); Targeted Killing; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Indigent Defense Reform; End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) (S. 1030/H.R. 3618); Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (H.R. 2999); Juvenile Life without Parole; Federal Over-Criminalization; School discipline; School-to-Prison Pipeline; Disparate Impact, Housing; Spousal Benefits; Marriage Equality; Religious Profiling; Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs wage compensation data collection tool; Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages (OFCCP); Disability Rights; Department of State - Issues Lobbied: National Defense Authorization Act for FY15 (H.R. 4435); Guantanamo Bay; TRIG Exemptions; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages; Reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (H.R. 2999); Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Executive Order; Surveillance; Disability Rights; Data Privacy; Elecition Administration; Federal Aviation Association - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Prison Phone Rulemaking; Indecency Comments; IP Transition; E-Rate Rulemaking; JSA/SSA Order; Open Internet Rule; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - Issues Lobbied: Regulatory Notice 13-42 FINRA Requests Comment on a Concept Proposal to Develop the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System; Internal Revenue Service - Issues Lobbied: Petition for IRS Rulemaking on 501c4; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; National Security Agency - Issues Lobbied: USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361/S. 1599); FISA Improvements Act of 2013 (S. 1631); Presidents surveillance reform proposal; National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Issues Lobbied: Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: REAL ID; Civil Rights Data Collection; Prviate Prisons; Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361/S. 1599); FISA Improvements Act of 2013 (S. 1631) ; Presidents surveillance reform proposal; Presidential Commission on Election Administration - Issues Lobbied: Election administration reform; Securities and Exchange Commission - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Social Security Administration - Issues Lobbied: Spousal Benefits; U.S. Census Bureau - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Non-Discrimination; U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: Border Enforcement; CBP oversight and excessive use of force; Detainee FOIA; U.S. Election Assitance Commission - Issues Lobbied: Voting Instructions; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: ICE enforcement issues; Federal administrative immigration reform (deportations, detention, due process, detainers, appointed counsel ); U.S. Sentencing Commission - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Reform; United States Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White Hosue Domestic Policy Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Immigration enforcement policy and practice; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (H.R. 2999); White House - Issues Lobbied: Interior and Border Enforcement; Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (H.R. 3899/S. 1945); Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 84/S. 2199/H.R. 377); Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs wage compensation data collection tool; Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages; ICE enforcement issues; Federal administrative immigration reform (deportations, detention, due process, detainers, appointed counsel ); Sentencing Reform; Solitary Confinement; USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361/S. 1599); FISA Improvements Act of 2013 (S. 1631); Presidents surveillance reform proposal ; Executive Order 13636; National Defense Authorization Act for FY15 (H.R. 4435); Torture (SSCI Report); Guantanamo Bay; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (H.R. 2999); School discipline; School-to-Prison Pipeline; Disparate Impact; Housing
2013 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
End Racial Profiling Act HR3618 and S1670. Lobbied in support of this bill.
Client expense: $14,926 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2013 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: Executive Order 13636, Cybersecurity Legislation and Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment;oversight and accountability; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign finance reform; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform (due process, enforcement, detention, legalization); H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; H.R. 1814, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2217, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention Bed Mandate; 287(g) funding; H.R. 2278, SAFE Act - Issues Lobbied: Interior Enforcement: House CIR- opposition to SAFE Act and other enforcement-only bills; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act (SAFE Act) - Issues Lobbied: Border security, state and local enforcement; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; H.R. 2586, FISA Court Accountability Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2603, Relevancy Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2684, Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2736, Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2761, Presidential Appointment of FISA Court Judges Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2818, Surveillance State Repeal Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2849, Privacy Advocate General Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2872, Border Enforcement, Security, and Technology Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 2999, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Police Practices; H.R. 3035, Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3070, NSA Accountability Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3103, Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3130, Protect Family Values at the Border Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; First Amendment; H.R. 3159, Ensuring Adversarial Process in the FISA Court Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3300, FEMA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 3304, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Assault; Detainee restrictions; National Security/AUMF/Detention; Religious Liberty; H.R. 3361, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance; National Security; Civil Liberties; Privacy; H.R. 3382, The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums and Crack Cocaine; H.R. 3404, National Defense Authorization Act for FY14 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 3431, American Families United Act - Issues Lobbied: Keeping mixed-status families together; H.R. 3471, Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 3774, Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 698, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 964, Respect States and Citizens Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R.1695, The Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; H.R.2656, The Federal Prison Reform Act - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, recidivism; HR 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention, immigration enforcement; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1044, World War II Memorial Prayer Act. - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 1121, Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1151, America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Assault; Detainee restrictions; National Security/AUMF/Detention; Religious Liberty; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act FY 14 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, HIV/AIDS; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships;H.R. 1417, Border Security Results Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 1318, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1307, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1329, FY14 CJS Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 1452, Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1460, FISA Judge Selection Reform Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1467, FISA Court Reform Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1599, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance; National Security; Civil Liberties; Privacy; S. 1631, FISA Improvements Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1670, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1696, Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1752, Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 1808, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; S. 1817, Humane Short Term Custody Act - Issues Lobbied: ; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 47, Violence Against Women Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement; Mandatory Minimums; Criminal Bars to Citizenship; National ID; Employment verification; Privacy; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; S. 862, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 878, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.1675, The Recidivism Reduction & Public Safety Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing and Prison Good Time Credits; S.1783, The Federal Prison Reform Act - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, recidivism Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Asylum Abuse - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Behavioral Detection - Issues Lobbied: ; BOP Oversight Hearing - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement, Private Prisons and PREA; Border Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Border Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Border Searches - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Bureau of Prisons Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Byrne Grants - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; CIA Torture Report - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment verification, Privacy; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice; Criminal Exclusions - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention bed mandate; 287(g) funding; Department of Homeland Security Issues; Detainer Issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Detention Bed Mandates - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight; Election administration reform - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Employment Credit Checks - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal administrative Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Federal Over-Criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: ; Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikes - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Housing Disparate Impact; ICE enforcement issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Immigration Local Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Interior and Border enforcement; KIDS Act - Issues Lobbied: Legalization; Limits on Using Hearing Videos - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment;Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Nomination of CIA General Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Torture; NSA Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Patent Issues - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Religious Displays - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Restoring discretion to immigration system - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Stand Your Ground Laws - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Racial Profiling; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: National security; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice; U.S. Customs and Border Protection Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Vance Legislative Fix - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Discrimination - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; Womens Economic Agenda - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Employment Discrimination Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform; Mandatory Minimums; Solitary Confinement; Access to Counsel; Compassionate Release; Private Prisons; Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Executive Order 13636; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Equal opportunity training; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; Military Abortion coverage; Military Combat Exclusion Policy; Spousal benefits; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Race in education strategic plan; Education; Discrimination (OCR); Single sex education; Proposed revisions to the Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), as outlined at 78 FR 37529; School Discipline Guidance; School Diversity Grant Programs; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Sex education; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory custody; ICE Detainers; Immigration detention; National ID; Employment verification; Privacy; Interior and Border enforcement; Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Executive Order 13636; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT; Radicalization; Suspicious Activity Reports; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Fusion Centers; Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: VAWA housing; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile solitary confinement; CAIR harassment; NYPD spying; Immigration; Racial profiling; Immigration detention (EOIR); Byrne Grants; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention); United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justices Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting; Sentencing Reform; Targeted Killing; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Interior and Border enforcement; DOJ Media Guidelines; Indigent Defense Reform; End Racial Profiling Act; Juvenile life without parole; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; Federal over-criminalization; Federal administrative immigration reform; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby: DOJ COPs program (COPs Office); School Discipline Guidance; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Employment; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation (OFCCP); OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool (OFCCP); Executive Order Prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages (DOL and OFFCP); Department of State - Issues Lobbied: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Department of Transportation - Issues Lobbied: Travel privacy; Department of Veterans Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Disability benefits; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Employment; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Womens Rights and National Origin Employment Discrimination strategic planning; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Deportation; Detainee Restrictions; NSA surveillance; Transparency; Racial profiling; Targeted killing; Detention bed mandate; FBI - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; Civil liberties;Privacy, Religious Freedom; Racial Profiling, National Security; Radicalization; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Access to telecommunications; Prison Phone Rates; Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Indecency Comments; IP Transition; E-Rate Rulemaking; IP Transition; Open Internet Rule; General Services Administration - Issues Lobbied: Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; Internal Revenue Service - Issues Lobbied: Political communications; 501(c)4 petition; Tax exempt standards; NASA - Issues Lobbied: Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; National Archives and Records Aministration - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Institute of Standards and Technology - Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Sex education; Byrne Grants; DHS appropriations (CPB use of force, oversight and accountability mechanisms, privacy, staffing); Operation Streamline; criminal prosecution for illegal entry and re-rentry; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Short-term detention facilities; Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: Religious accommodations; Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Social Security Administration - Issues Lobbied: Spousal benefits; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Issues Lobbied: ; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: CBP training; Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; U.S. Agency for International Development - Issues Lobbied: RIN 0412AA71Partner Vetting in USAID Assistance; United States Army - Issues Lobbied: Equal Opportunity Trainings in the Army; United States Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House - Issues Lobbied: National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Torture (SSCI Report); Interior and Border enforcement; Possible Executive Order re Nondiscrimination in Federal Contracts; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending); Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Surveillance Legislation: H.R. 3361, S. 1599, S. 1631, H.R. 2399, S. 1215, S. 1182, S. 1121, H.R. 2603, H.R. 2818, H.R. 2684, H.R. 3070, S. 1151, H.R. 2475, S. 1130, H.R. 2440, H.R. 2736, H.R. 3035, S. 1452, S. 1460, S. 1467, H.R. 2761, H.R. 2586, H.R. 2849, H.R. 3159, H.R. 3103; Executive Order 13636; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby; Election administration reform (Presidential Commission on Election Administration); Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool; Executive Order Prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Immigration and Border Enforcement (Domestic Policy Counsel)
2013 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; 78 FR 37529, Comments on Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collections (CRDC) - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Corporal Punishment; School Discipline; LGBT; Womens Rights; Disability Rights;E.O. 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; H.R. 1077, Consumer Mortgage Choice Act - Issues Lobbied: Fair Housing; H.R. 1262, A bill to amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Domestic Drones; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Location Tracking; H.R. 1318, Youth Promise Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice; H.R. 1389, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 1417, The Border Security Results Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Border Enforcement/Security; Immigration Reform; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act & Numerous CFR Measures and Amendments - Issues Lobbied: CFR; H.R. 1493, Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform (due process, enforcement, detention, legalization); H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; H.R. 1772, Legal Workforce Act - Issues Lobbied: Legalization; H.R. 1773, The Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act) - Issues Lobbied: Legalization; H.R. 1797, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 1814, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1852, Email Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1904, Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act - Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killing; H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; Church-State Separation; LGBT Rights; HIV/AIDS; National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2131, Supplying Knowledge-based Immigrants and Lifting Levels of STEM Visas Act (SKILLS Visa Act) - Issues Lobbied: Legalization; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Interior Enforcement; Immigration Reform; H.R. 2397, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2479, HOME Act; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; H.R. 258, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2610, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Housing Discrimination; H.R. 2711, Citizen Empowerment Act; H.R. 2786, Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 2851, End Racial Profiling Act of 2013; H.R. 2855, State-Foreign Operations Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2872, Border Enforcement, Security, and Technology Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 2999, ABC Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 3130, Protect Family Values at the Border Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Religious Freedom; First Amendment; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 5, Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Youth and Schools; Education; Religious Liberty; H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; National Security, Free Speech; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; Drones; H.R. 698, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 964, Respect States and Citizens Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 1094, Student Success Act/Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Youth and Schools; S. 1151, America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1168, Restore Our Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require specific evidence for access to business records and other tangible things, and provide appropriate transition procedures, and for other purpose - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; Church-State Separation; LGBT Rights; HIV/AIDS; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National SecurityWhistleblowers; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; S. 1242, HOME Act; S. 1279, Freedom to Pray Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 1284, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014; S. 1307, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1329, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Cops in Schools; Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Religious Liberty; S. 1372, State-Foreign Operations Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1392, Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Mandatory Minimums; S. 210, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Location Tracking; S. 717, Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement; Mandatory Minimums; Criminal Bars to Citizenship; National ID; Employment Verification: Privacy; Immigrants Rights; Border Enforcement; Due Process; S. 777, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 987, The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R.1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 2656, Public Safety Enhancement Act - Issues Lobbied: BOP risk assessment; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; S. 862, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 1016, Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Domestic drones; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1037, Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1044, World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty Congressional Issues without Bills: Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Anonymous Speech Rights; Appointed Counsel in Immigration Proceedings - Issues Lobbied: Due Process; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Background Checks in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Information Sharing; Border Enforcement/ CBP Oversight and Excessive Sse of Force - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Border Security - Issues Lobbied: ; Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Bureau of Prison Oversight; CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issues Lobbied: ; Combat Exclusion; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID: Employment Verification; Privacy; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act update - Issues Lobbied: Due process; Over-criminalization; Free speech; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Corrections Task Force; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Cybersecurity legislation - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; DACA; DEA Oversight Hearings - Issues Lobbied: Letter urging House and Senate to schedule a DEA oversight hearing; Defense Department and NSA Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security, civil liberties, privacy; Detainee Rights ; Detention Bed Mandate; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security, civil liberties, privacy; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; Digital Privacy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Armed Drones; DREAM Act; Election administration reform - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; Privacy; Location Tracking; E-Verify; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal immigration reform (due process, border enforcement, detention, legalization); Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Food Assistance for Convicts ; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Homeland Security Issues; House BOP Oversight; Housing Disparate Impact; ICE enforcement issues; ICE Solitary Confinement; Immigration and Familes;Immigration Grassroots ; Immigration Oversight and Border Accountability; Indigent Defense ; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; KIDS Act - Issues Lobbied: House CIR- path to citizenship, legalization proposals including DREAMers/ possible KIDS Act; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Marijuana Federal Enforcement ; Military Abortion Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Nomination of FBI Director; Operation Streamline ; Overcriminalization ; Over-incarceration ; Password Protection - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; 4th Amendment; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Religious Displays; Religious Refusals ; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act ; Senate Hearing on Mandatory Minimums - Issues Lobbied: Testimony opposing Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Senate Marijuana Hearing - Issues Lobbied: Testimony re conflict between state and federal marijuana laws; SNAP Drug Testing ; Stand Your Ground Laws; Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: ; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Syria Military Action; Syria Resolution ; Targeted Killing; Telecom Access ; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice; Torture (SSCI Report) - Issues Lobbied: ; Unlawful presence waiver rule; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of Datamining Technologies by the Government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Vance Legislative Fix - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; IRS Targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; Womens Economic Agenda - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Employment Discrimination Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons, Issues Lobbied: Stand Your Ground Laws; Mandatory Minimums; Solitary Confinement; Access to Counsel; Department of Agriculture, Issues Lobbied: The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013: Overview of Applicability to HUD programs, Docket No.FR 5720-N-01; Department of Commerce, Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform; Department of Defense, Issues Lobbied: Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Military Abortion Coverage; Military Combat Exclusion Policy; LGBT Rights, Basic Rights and Liberties, Windsor Implementation; Department of Education, Issues Lobbied: Harassment; Domestic Violence; School Discipline Guidance; Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Diversity Grant Programs; Proposed revisions to the Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), as outlined at 78 FR 37529; Women's Rights; Single-Sex Education; Department of Health and Human Services, Issues Lobbied: Abortion Coverage (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services); ACA Anti-discrimination Regulations; Request for Information Regarding Nondiscrimination in Certain Health Programs or Activities, RIN 0945-ZA01; The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013: Overview of Applicability to HUD programs, Docket No.FR 5720-N-01; LGBT Rights; Department of Homeland Security, Issues Lobbied: Material support in the immigration asylum context; Immigration Detention Policies; National ID: Employment Verification; Privacy; Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Use of Datamining Technologies by the Government; REAL ID; Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act; Interior and Border Enforcement; DHS Oversight; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT; Radicalization; Suspicious Activity Report; Fusion Centers; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Ice Enforcement; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Operation Streamline; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Issues Lobbied: Housing Discrimination; Department of Justice, Issues Lobbied: Prison Rape Elimination Act; Byrne Grant; Double Jeopardy; Drug Policy; SAR Procedures; Marijuana Criminalization; Over-criminalization; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act; Targeted Killing; Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform; H.R. 1312; S. 639; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby; DOJ COPs program; Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act; Interior and Border Enforcement; DOJ Media Guidelines; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidelines; Indigent Defense Reform; End Racial Profiling Act; Juvenile Life without Parole; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; ACLU Position on George Zimmerman Case; Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners; Solitary Confinement; Private Prisons; RRC's 2014 Priorites; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Operation Streamline; Department of Labor, Issues Lobbied: Faith-based Funding; OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool; Department of State, Issues Lobbied: Partner Vetting System;International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Education Rights; Guantanamo; Department of Treasury, Issues Lobbied: ; Department of Veterans Affairs, Issues Lobbied: ; Drug Enforcement Administration, Issues Lobbied: Drug Enforcement; Use of NSA Data; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Issues Lobbied: Discrimination; EEOC Outreach on Womens Rights and National Origin Employment Discrimination; Pregnancy Discrimination; Executive Office of the President, Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Immigration Enforcement; Immigration Detention Conditions; Surveillance; Syria Military Action; NSA Asks; Detention; Operation Streamline; Immigration Reform; Presidential Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies;; FBI, Issues Lobbied: ACLU FBI Report; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; Radicalization; Federal Aviation Administration, Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Federal Communications Commission, Issues Lobbied: Telecom Access; Media Diversity; First Amendment; Access to Broadband; Prison Phone Rates; Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Indecency Comments; UO Transition; E-Rate Rulemaking; Federal Election Commission, Issues Lobbied: 501(c)(4) Regulations; Internal Revenue Service, Issues Lobbied: Petition for IRS Rulemaking on 501c4; National Archives and Records Aministration, Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Counterterrorism Center, Issues Lobbied: Watchlists; Office of Management and Budget, Issues Lobbied: REAL ID; Operation Streamline/ criminal prosecution for illegal entry and re-entry; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Appropriations; Office of Personnel Management, Issues Lobbied: Abortion Coverage; Pay Equity; Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Issues Lobbied: Whistleblowers; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Office of the Vice President, Issues Lobbied: The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013: Overview of Applicability to HUD programs, Docket No.FR 5720-N-01; FY14 CJS Appropriations; Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Issues Lobbied: FBI and DOJ Oversight; National security and civil liberties; Privacy; Defense Department and NSA Oversight; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Issues Lobbied: Unlawful presence waiver rule; DACA; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Issues Lobbied: Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Civil Rights; Human Rights; Racial Justice; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Issues Lobbied: Lapel Cameras; Use of Force; Border Enforcement/ CBP Oversight and Excessive Sse of Force; Operation Streamline; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Issues Lobbied: Ice Enforcement; DACA; U.S. Sentencing Commission, Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Issues; U.S. Agency for International Development, Issues Lobbied: RIN 0412AA71Partner Vetting in USAID Assistance; United States Trade Representative, Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House, Issues Lobbied: Torture (SSCI Report); Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; Surveillance; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby; Presidential Commission on Election Administration; OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool; Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act; Interior and Border Enforcement; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; The Youth PROMISE Act; Operation Streamline/ criminal prosecution for illegal entry and re-entry; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Ice Enforcement; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Operation Streamline; Appropriations
2013 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation E.O. 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; H.R. 11, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1262, A bill to amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones;H.R. 1263, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 1389, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act & Numerous CFR Measures and Amendments - Issues Lobbied: CFR; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 1497, War Memorial Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; H.R. 1797, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights; H.R. 1814, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 1845, Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Discrimination; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1852, Email Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 1904, Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act - Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killing; H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Accommodations; Indefinite Detention; Torture; LGBT Discrimination; Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; Disability Rights; Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2216, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; H.R. 2217, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Abortion; Detention Bed Mandate; DACA; Reproductive Rights; Women's Rights; Employee Discrimination; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration enforcement; Immigration Reform; H.R. 2397, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Detention; Immigration; First Amendment; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2479, Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Relationship Recognition; H.R. 258, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 274, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 320, Student Support Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 337, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Pay Equity; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; H.R. 5, Student Success Act/Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; Religious Liberty/ Church-State Separation; Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; H.R. 592, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance, National Security; Free Speech; H.R. 628, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; H.R. 671, Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Military Sexual Assault; Women's Rights; H.R. 933, Consolidated and Continuing Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 940, Health Care Conscience Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 964, Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana pre-emption; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 989, To prohibit the use of funds for the Lifeline program, and for other purposes - Issues Lobbied: Lifeline program; HR 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; S 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 1016, Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1034, National Defense Authorization Act FY 14 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Discrimination; S. 1037, Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; S. 1094, Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/ Church-State Separation; LGBT Youth Discrimination; Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties,Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1168, Restore Our Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1217, Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Relationship Recognition; S. 1242, Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; S. 145, The Save Our Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 146, School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 148, A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 153, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 195, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 210, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 264, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Military Sexual Assault; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 47, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 480, NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 5, A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Freedom; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 631, Healthy Families Act ; S. 649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 689, Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Religious Liberties; S. 699, Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 705, War Memorial Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 717, Non-Profit Energy Efficiency Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform (due process, enforcement, detention, legalization); Criminal Penalties, Solitary Confinement and Private Prisons/FOIA; Women's Rights; LGBT Relationship Recognition; Mandatory Minimums, Criminal Bars to Citizenship, Racial Pro; S. 777, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 791, Follow the Money Act 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Employment Discrimination/Religious Liberties; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. 862, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 870, Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Discrimination; S. 878, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Equal protection; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 954, Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: SNAP Restrictions; FOIA; S. 967, Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013; S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; S.374, Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.572, Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights/; S.649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S.AMDT. 715 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.AMDT. 720 to S. 649, Due Process protections - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights/; S.AMDT. 725 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.AMDT.730 to S. 649, Mental health and substance abuse programs - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Abortion Riders to Appropriations Bills - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings for individuals with mental disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; AP Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Privacy; National Security; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Campaign Finance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process, free speech, overcriminalization; Consumer Fraud and Abuse Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Controlled Unclassified Information - Issues Lobbied: Government secrecy;Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Defense Appropriations Bill for 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Defense of Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance - Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Espionage Act proposals - Issues Lobbied: First amendment; Fair Housing Act - Issues Lobbied: Housing; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Financial Services Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Policy Riders; Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; FY14 CJS Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Government Religious Displays - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: National Security; Human Rights; Gun legislation - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory minimums; SROs; Disability and registration; Cops in schools; Video games; Tip lines; Penalties; HIPPA - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Immigration - Issues Lobbied: Family Unity; IRS Targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Low Income Housing Tax Credit - Issues Lobbied: Housing; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Mental health sense of the Senate - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Justice/Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; NLRB Vacancies - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; Nomination of FBI Director - Issues Lobbied: National Security; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Privacy Multistakeholder Process - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Private Prison FOIA - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial Justice; Religious Funding - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Reporter Shield - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI (Sandoval fix) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination;; Sex Education - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; State-Foreign Operations Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Student Non-discrimination Act, Pregnant Teens; Student tip line in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Student privacy, information sharing; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; National Security; The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Torture (SSCI Report) - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Trafficking - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers. Agencies Lobbied: Department of Commerce, Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Department of Defense, Issues Lobbied: GITMO Force Feeding; Press Access; Sexual Assault; Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Department of Education, Issues Lobbied: Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategiesto prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Civil Rights Data Collection; School discipline guidance; Department of Health and Human Services, Issues Lobbied: Contraception Coverage; HIPPA; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act, CMS9968P, Docket ID: CMS2012003163161; 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 (Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System); Department of Homeland Security, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Fusion Centers; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Suspicious Activity Reports; Radicalization; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); Use of datamining technologies by the government; National ID; Employment Verification; Privacy; REAL ID; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Issues Lobbied: Olmstead Guidance; Affirmative Fair Market Housing Plans; LGBT Housing Discrimination; Proposed Rule 24 CFR Part 579 [Docket No. 5573P01] RIN 2506AC33 Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program and Revisions to the Definition of Chronically Homeless; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Department of Justice, Issues Lobbied: Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliatio; School discipline guidance; COPS Proram; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Policing of domestic violence/sexual assault; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; DOJ Media Guidelines; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; Juvenile Life without Parole; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks APrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Issues Lobbied: NSA Surveillance; Social Security Administration, Issues Lobbied: Transgender Discrimination; Agency Information Collection Activities: Form SSA-437, Program Discrimination Complaint (FR Doc. 201307616); U.S. Customs and Border ct; Equal Access to Justice Act; Indigent defense; Youth Solitary Confinement; Religious Freedom; AP Surveillance; Juvenile Justice; Over-incarceration; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); Death Penalty; Standard Minimum Rules for Prisoner Treatment; Juvenile Solitary Confinement (Bureau of Prisons); The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Federal Over-criminalization; Indigent Defense Reform; Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI (Sandoval fix); Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement; Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD) ; Puerto Rico Police Practices; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act; Department of Labor, Issues Lobbied: Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation, OFCCP guidance rescission; OFCCP data collection tool; Department of State, Issues Lobbied: Human rights of migrants; U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Human Rights (UN Special Rapporteur requests, including requests to visit the U.S.); Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD); Department of Treasury, Issues Lobbied: ; Department of Veterans Affairs, Issues Lobbied: ; Director of National Intelligence, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Issues Lobbied: National Origin Discrimination; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records; T Visa Certifications and Continued Presence Applications by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Executive Office of the President, Issues Lobbied: Closure of Guantanamo Bay; Classification; Targeted Killing; Immigration Reform; FCC Issues; Torture Report; Lobbying Restrictions; LGBT Non-discrimination in Federal Contracts; Election Administration; Surveillance; Deportation; FBI, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Radicalization; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Federal Aviation Administration, Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Privacy; Federal Communications Commission, Issues Lobbied: Indecency restrictions; Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Prison Phone Rulemaking; IP Transition; Federal Trade Commission, Issues Lobbied: Mobile Phone Companies; Unfair telecom practices; Food and Drug Administration, Issues Lobbied: Emergency Contraception; National Archives and Records Aministration, Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Counterterrorism Center, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Issues Lobbied: Mobile Apps; Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Office of Management and Budget, Issues Lobbied: OFCCP guidance rescission; REAL ID; Office of Personnel Management, Issues Lobbied: Combined Federal Campaign; RIN 3206AM68 (Solicitation of Federal Civilian and Uniformed Service Personnel for Contributions to Private Voluntary Organizations); Protection, Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force;United States Commission on Civil Rights, Issues Lobbied: Meeting on Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties; United States Trade Representative, Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House, Issues Lobbied: S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Controlled Unclassified Information; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act; Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending); Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Election administration reform; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; Torture (SSCI Report); Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14.
2013 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: H.R. 1263, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; 77 FR 75299, Prison Rape Elimination Commission Comments - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; Amdt. 503 to S. Con. Res. 8, Opposing reduced funding for mental health services to individuals who are eligible to purchase a weapon - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Executive Order 13636,Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 11, Violence Against Women Reauthorizations Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, First Amendment, Criminal Justice, Non-discrimination, LGBT Rights; H.R. 1177, Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens rights; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 1389, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform; H.R. 152, Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; H.R. 258, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 274, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 320, Student Support Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights, Mental Health, Criminal Justi ce; H.R. 493, Homeland Security Respect for Life Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 519, Uniting American Families - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Immigration; H.R. 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; H.R. 592, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Church-State Separation; H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, Information Sharing, Intelligence Collection; H.R. 628, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Privacy, Surveillance; H.R. 698, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; H.R. 725, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Education; H.R. 933, Consolidated and Continuing Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 940, Health Care Conscience Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 964, Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana Pre-emption; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Privacy; HR 312, Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Criminal Justice; S .649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S 38, Jury ACCESS Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Criminal Justice; S. 12, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 145, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 146, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 148, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 153, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 1670, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 195, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 210, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; S. 264, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 296, Uniting American Families - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Immigration; S. 306, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; S. 372, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Education; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 47, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Women's Rights, Religious Liberties, Mandatory Minimums, Tribal Provisions; S. 480, NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 572, Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 649, Safe Communities and Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums,Police in Schools, First Amendment, Disability Rights; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform; S. 84, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. Con. Res. 8, Fiscal Year 2014 Senate Budget Resolution - Issues Lobbied: Vouchers, Church-State Separation, Reproductive Rights, School Vouchers, Voter ID; S.162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; S.374, Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S.607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S.689, Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S.744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; S.AMDT. 715 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Appointed counsel for individuals with mental disabilities in immigration proceedings - Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings, Disability Rights; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Background Checks in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing; Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Campaign Disclosure - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Indefinite Detention; Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, Immigration; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act update - Issues Lobbied: Due process, over-criminalization, free speech; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Department of Homeland Security Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security, civil liberties, privacy; Department of Justice Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; Department fo Defense Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Armed Drones, National Security; Electronic Communications Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Religious Liberty; Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: ; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Gun Control Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, School Discipline, Criminal Justice, First Amendment; police in schools; mandatory minimums; Harassment Regulations - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act (HOME Act) - Issues Lobbied: Fair housing/LGBT rights; HUD Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Fair housing; ICE enforcement issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Racial Profiling; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; LGBT Parenting - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing;MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Mental disabilities and gun regulation - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Mental Health Sense of the Senate - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Justice/Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; National Counter Terrorism Center - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/AUMF; Nomination of CIA Director - Issues Lobbied: ; Operation Streamline - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Over-Classification Reduction - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; Password Protection - Issues Lobbied: privacy; Peace Corps abortion coverage- Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Privacy of medical records in gun legislation - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Private Prison Information Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Proposed immigration reform bill - Issues Lobbied: Immigration (Racial Profiling, Detainee Release, Criminal Exclusions, Gangs, Judicial Discretion); biometric ID, E-Verify, Operation Streamline; border enforcement; access to counsel, pre-emption, state/local enforcement, 100 mile border zone, detention c; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial Justice; Restoring discretion to immigration system - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; School Safety - Issues Lobbied: School Discipline; Sequester BOP Cuts - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; SSCI Report on Torture - Issues Lobbied: Torture; Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT; Student tip line in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Student privacy, information sharing; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Human Rights; The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Urging ratification of CEDAW - Issues Lobbied: Human rights/womens rights; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; Youth Promise Act - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons, Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement, Juvenile Detention; Department of Agriculture, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Women's Rights; Department of Commerce, Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Commerce; Department of Defense, Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killings, Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights, Military Abortion Coverage, Torture, Detention, Human Trafficking, Disability Rights, Combat Exclusion, LGBT Rights; Department of Education, Issues Lobbied: Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Civil Rights Data Collection, School Discipline Guidance, School Discipline, LGBT Rights, First Amendment, Single Sex Education, School Diversity, DC Voucher Data; Department of Health and Human Services, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559, Church-State Separation, Reproductive Rights, Immigrants Rights, LGBT Rights, Education, Religious Liberties, Disability Rights, DACA Health Coverage; Department of Homeland Security, Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Use of datamining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, REAL ID, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013, Vouchers, Church-State Separation , Reproductive Rights, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Department of Homeland Security Oversight, National Security, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT, Radicalization, Suspicious Activity Reports, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Fusion Centers, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, Use of Force, Asylum, Detention, Immigration, Indefinite Detention, First Amendment, Voting Rights, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Alien Criminal Response Information Management System; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Harassment regulation under the Fair Housing Act, Olmstead guidance from HUD, Disability Rights, Womens Rights, Religious Liberties, Housing for victims of domestic violence; Department of Justice, Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, Targeted Killings, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Department of Justice's COPs program, School Discipline Guidance, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Employment Discrimination,Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI, Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD), Human Rights, Indigent Defense Reform, Federal Over-Criminalization, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Juvenile Life without Parole, June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Commutations and Pardons, Prison overcrowding, Solitary Confinement, Juvenile Detention, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013, PREA rule covering immigration detainees/ sex abuse in DHS custody, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Immigration Enforcement/Detention, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Whistleblower Protection, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, Department of Justice Racial Profiling Guidance, School Discipline, Pay Equity, Voting Rights, Immigration, Torture, Human Trafficking, Detention, First Amendment, Privacy, Disability Rights, Mandatory Minimums. Criminal Justice, Racial Profiling, Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties, Indigent Defense, Whistleblower Protections; Department of Labor, Issues Lobbied: Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Women's Rights, Employment Discrimination, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Guidance, Pay Equity, Disability Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties; Department of State, Issues Lobbied: Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Women's Rights, Employment Discrimination, Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD), Human Rights, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Torture, Human Trafficking, Womens Rights; Department of Treasury, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Women's Rights, Privacy, LGBT Rights; Department of Veterans Affairs, Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights, Womens Rights; Director of National Intelligence, Issues Lobbied: Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Surveillence; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Issues Lobbied: National Origin Employment Discrimination, Women's Rights, Racial Justice, Immigrants Rights, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records, Pay Equit, LGBT Rights, T-Visas; Executive Office of the President, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties, Pay Equity, Torture, Human Rights, Detention, First Amendment, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Racial Profiling, Criminal Justice, Senate Select Intelligence Committees Report on Torture, Border Enforcement, Gun Control Legislation; FBI, Issues Lobbied: Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, Radicalization; Federal Aviation Administration, Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Federal Communications Commission, Issues Lobbied: Media Ownership Rule, Low Power FM Application Window, Prison Phone Rulemaking, Indecency Comments, Censorship, Broadband Access, Spectrum Auction; Federal Trade Commission, Issues Lobbied: COPPA, Online Privacy, Privacy; Government Accountability Office, Issues Lobbied: PREA rule covering immigration detainees/ sex abuse in DHS custody; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice; NASA, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights; National Archives and Records Aministration, Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Over-Classification Reduction, Department of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Issues Lobbied: Event Data Recorders; National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Issues Lobbied: Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Office of Management and Budget, Issues Lobbied: REAL ID, Over-Classification Reduction, National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government; Office of Personnel Management, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights; Peace Corps, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Social Security Administration, Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; U.S. General Services Administration, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force, Operation Streamline, Immigration; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Issues Lobbied: ICE enforcement issues, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, use of force, asylum, detention, Unlawful presence waiver rule, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, use of force, asylum, detention; United States Commission on Civil Rights, Issues Lobbied: Background Checks; United States Trade Representative, Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House, Issues Lobbied: Guantanamo, Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Employment Discrimination, Presidential Commission on Election Administration, Voting Rights, LGBT Non-Discrimination Executive Order, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Commutations and Pardons, Solitary Confinement, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and ModernizationAct of 2013, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Immigration Enforcement/Detention, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Whistleblower Protection, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, Controlled Unclassified Information, Government Secrecy, Reproductive Rights, Religous Liberties, FAR Council
2012 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation .R. 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 963, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling;S. 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; CA TRUST Act, - Issues Lobbied: State measure restricting compliance with ICE detainers; Draft Executive Order, Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H. Con. Res. 141, Stop Harming Our Kids Resolution - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; H. Res 646, Expressing the sense of the House that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the `adult entertainment' section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H..R 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.J. Res. 100, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the use of public funds to pay for campaigns for election to Federal office. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 111, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures in political campaigns and to enact public financing systems for such campaigns. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 72, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to regulate campaign contributions for Federal elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 78, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds for political activity by corporations. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 8, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to limitations on the amounts of contributions and expenditures that may be made in connection with campaigns for election to public office. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 82, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing regulation of any expenditure in connection with an election. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 86, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures with respect to elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 88, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 90, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the au - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 92, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the disbursement of funds for political activity by for-profit corporations and other for-profit business organizations. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 97, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures with respect to Federal elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1116, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 1397, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 1404, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1519, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 1627, Honoring Americas Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 166, Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 1681, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; H.R. 1775, Stolen Valor Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1996, Government Litigation Savings Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2164, Legal Workforce Act - Issues Lobbied: Oppose e-verify, privacy; H.R. 2168, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 2212, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 282, To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 3027, The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; H.R. 3030, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 3053, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; H.R. 3165, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; H.R. 3485, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 3523, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3600, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, privacy, first amendment, national security, criminal justice, police practices; H.R. 3674, PRECISE Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; H.R. 3881, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings; H.R. 4010, Disclosure of Information on Spending on Campaigns Leads to Open and Secure Elections Act of 2012 (DISCLOSE) - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; .R. 4271, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment;H.R. 4310, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF, Reproductive Rights, National Security, civil liberties, Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation, First Amendment, LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to DiscriminateAbortion, Indefinite Detention, Religious Discrimi; H.R. 483, Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 495, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; H.R. 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration provisions on DUI, immigration court procedure, PREA; H.R. 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; H.R. 5743, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Intelligence Authorization; H.R. 5799, Voter Empowerment Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 5848, Juror Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 5854, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations for FY2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5855, DHS Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, VIPR Squads, SPOT Program, Drones; H.R. 5949, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; First Amendment: Intelligence collection; H.R. 5973, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5978, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 6019, Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 6046, Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 611, BEST PRACTICES Act - Issues Lobbied: Online privacy; H.R. 6199, Preserving American Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; H.R. 6529, ECPA 2.0 Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 654, Do Not Track Me Online Act - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy; H.R. 6676, Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; H.R. 693, E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 800, Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 96, Internet Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 98, Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 998, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 1212, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 1409, Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Criminal Justice; S. 1605, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S. 1670, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, privacy, first amendment, national security\, criminal justice, police practices; S. 1728, Stolen Valor Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 1732, Privacy Act Modernization for the Information Age of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 1770, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; S. 1910, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 1925, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration provisions on DUI, immigration court procedure, PREA, Womens Rights, First Amendment; S. 1994, Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2003, Due Process Guarantee Act - Issues Lobbied: Due Process for suspected Terrorists (U.S. Citizens and LPRs); S. 2017, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S. 2020, Restraint and Seclusion/ The Keeping All Students Safe Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S. 2105, Cybersecurity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 2219, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; S. 306, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S. 3220, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. 3254, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Indefinite Detention, Transfer Restrictions, Reproductive Rights, National Security, civil liberties, Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation/ LGBT, Abortion, LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; S. 3257, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3276, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National Security, privacy, First Amendment, intelligence collection, Cybersecurity; S. 3287, Protect Americans Against Unwarranted Drone Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; S. 3317, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Racial Justice; S. 3342, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3369, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3372, Military Service Integrity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3414, CSA2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy;S. 3454, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Intelligence Authorization, Leaks Amendments; S. 3515, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3565, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 3608, Voter Empowerment Act (omnibus including DRA, Caging, Deceptive Practices), legislation to address long voting lines, other affirmative voting rights bills - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S. 3618, Jury ACCESS Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S. 505, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S. 555, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 74, Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; S. 750, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 811, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S.2102, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S.2151, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S.J. Res. 29, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 33, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 35, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to authorizing regulation of contributions to candidates for State public office and Federal office by corporations, entities organized and operated for profit, an - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment Congressional Issues without Bills: Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rightsCivil Rights Data Collection - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability; School DisciplineComprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacyConvention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial JusticeConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Issues Lobbied: Womens RightsCreation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: PrivacyDefense of Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT RightsDepartment of Justice Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security and civil liberties; PrivacyDHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centersTSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policyDOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance - Issues Lobbied: Reform of GuidanceDomestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed dronesElectronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location trackingFairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police PracticesFBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open governmentFederal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal JusticeFusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First AmendmentGang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile JusticeGuidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral ConsequencesJune 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police PracticesJuvenile Life without Parole - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Racial Justice,License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: PrivacyMandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, SentencingNational Counter Terrorism Center - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharingOver-Classification Reduction - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classificationRadicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national securityReform of the US Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human RightsSchool discipline and the School to prison pipeline - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School DisciplineThe Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights, Abortion; Human RightsUpdate to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collectionUse of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Additional Issues Lobbied: Torture, Targeted Killing, Immigration Reform , STEM Visa Proposal, Border Abuses, 287(g) Programs, Border Enforcement, CBP oversight and excessive use of force, TSA Reform, Immigration Reform and Attorney Fees Issues ,Charitable Deductions, Disability Rights, Judicial Vacancies, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Torture Report, Voting Rights, Securitization, Drone Forum Agencies Lobbied: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Issues Lobbied: Fair Lending Regulations: Corporation for National and Community Service - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Agriculture - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking: Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Immigration reform; National Defense Authorization Act FY13 (H.R. 4310/S. 3254); Reproductive Rights; Women's rights: Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; FERPA Privacy Regulations; Student privacy; Single Sex Education; School discipline guidance (OCR); Civil Rights Data Collection (OCR): Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Reproductive Rights-contraception coverage: emergency contraception, emergency care, government contracts; Sex Discrimination; Healthcare Coverage for Deferred Action Immigrants; RIN 0938-AR03: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Standards Related to Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, and Accreditation: Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Immigration Reform; 287(g) program; Expose and close- immigration detention (Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties); National ID; employment verification; privacy; Use of datamining technologies by the government; Government Watch Lists; REAL ID; Privacy, National ID; National Security; Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; Radicalization; Suspicious Activity Reports (H.R. 495, H.R. 963, S. 505); Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Fusion Centers; National Security Entry-Exit Registration System; DHS Budget; LGBT; Immigrants Rights: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Comments on Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Continuum of Care Program, Docket No. FR-5476-I-01; Religious Bias: Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Immigration reform; Executive Order 13559; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 13279; Church-State Seperation; LGBT; Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Religious Hate Crimes Data Collection; Religious Discrimination; Religious Profling; Reproductive Rights; DOJs reponse to U.S. v. Simmons case in North Carolina; Commutations and Pardons; PREA rule covering immigration detainees; Sex Abuse in DHS Custody; Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking; Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act (H.R. 2168/S. 1212); National Security; Privacy; Civil Liberties: FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government: DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance; FISA Amendment Act reauthorization (H.R. 5949, S. 3276); School discipline guidance; Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation; Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD); Civil Rights; Human Rights; Sentencing; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice; Indigent Defense Reform; Federal Over-Criminalization; Juvenile Life without Parole; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies: Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation (OFCCP): Department of State - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of the Interior - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Transportation - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Discrimination; LGBT; Relationships: Department of Veterans Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Women's rights: Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Update toNational Counterterrorism Center Guidelines: Environmental Protection Agency - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records: Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Trafficking, Faith Based Funding, Human Rights Agenda, Immigration Reform, Immigration Detention Condision, Indefinite Detention, FSA Review Board, Abortion Coverage, Second Term Agenda: FBI - Issues Lobbied: National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Radicalization: Federal Aviation Association - Issues Lobbied: Domestic drones; Privacy: Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Framework of Broadband Access; Net Neutrality; Media Ownership; Media Diveristy, Civil Rights: Federal Election Commission - Issues Lobbied: Electioneering Communications: Federal Trade Commission - Issues Lobbied: COPPA (16 CFR Part 312); Online Privacy;: Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigration detainers; Expose and close- immigration detention (ICE and the Office of Detention Policy and Planning): Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement: National Archives and Records Administration - Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction; National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing: National Economic Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking: National Security Agency - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order on Human Rights: National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Issues Lobbied: Privacy Multistakeholder Process: Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: REAL ID; Privacy, National ID; E.O. 13,490; First Amendment; Over-Classification Reduction: Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: RIN 3206-AM47; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program for the Affordable Insurance Exchanges: Peace Corps - Issues Lobbied: Women's Rights: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence Oversight, Privacy: Small Business Administration - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: U.S. Agency for International Development - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Issues Lobbied: DACA/Deferred Action for DREAMers: U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; CBP oversight; Excessive Use of Force; Safe repatriation: U.S. Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; First Amendment: U.S. Government Accountability Office - Issues Lobbied: PREA rule covering immigration detainees; Sex Abuse in DHS Custody: United States Patent and Trademark Office - Issues Lobbied: Gene Patenting: White House - Issues Lobbied: Torture; Targeted killing; Indefinite detention; Immigration Reform; Executive Order 13559; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 13279; Church-State Seperation; LGBT; Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; NDAA (H.R. 4310) Conscience Amendment Sec. 533; National Defense Authorization Act FY13 (H.R. 4310/S. 3254); Reproductive Rights; Commutations and Pardons; Expose and close- immigration detention; Privacy: Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate, Immigrants Rights, Human Rights, HIV/AIDS
2012 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
HR 3618 End Racial Profiling Act. Lobbied in support of this bill on the house side.
Client expense: $18,989 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2012 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
H.R.1397, S.811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 S. 1925 The Violence Against Women Act H.R.3618, S. 1670 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 District of Columbia House Voting Rights H.R. 1116, S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act S. 3317/H.R. 5978 Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012 H.R. 5799 Voter Empowerment Act of 2012 S. 2189 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act Agriculture, Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 King Amendment to H.R. 5856 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013), relating to Defense of Marriage Act S. 3618/H.R. 5848, The Jury ACCESS (ACCESS for Capable Citizens and Equality in Service Selection) Act
Client expense: $248,376 · Firm income: Not reported
2012 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Support the elimination of racial disparities in state, local and federal law enforcement. End racial profiling. Abolish the death penalty; support the establishment of a commission to study problems surrounding the Death Penalty and a moratorium on implementing the death penalty until the study is complete. Completely eliminate Crack Cocaine / Powder cocaine sentencing disparities, and apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively. Support H.R. 2242. Support sentencing reform. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Support continued funding for COPS program. Support full funding for ex-felony offender programs (the Second Chance Act). Support prisoner literacy, education and rehabilitation. Support law enforcement trust & integrity. Support increased enforcement activities by the US DoJ, Civil Rights Division. Support legislation to help youth stay away from gangs . Support a review of prosecutorial decisions, and any racial implications therein . Support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, and oppose any amendments that may result in more juveniles being tried as adults. Support S. 306, a bill to establish a blue ribbon National Criminal Justice Commission. Support the recommended national standards developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Support anti-SLAPP suit legislation. Support Restorative Justice Initiatives. Ensure that fair and impartial judges are nominated to the federal bench and that they are confirmed. Support Anita Earls for a federal judgeship .Support the Legal Services Corp. Opposed to proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support hiring a progressive reformer with a proven record of rehabilitation for the new Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Support applying the new guidelines for Crack cocaine conviction retroactively to those currently incarcerated (testify before the US Sentencing Commission). Support for the elimination of the War on Drugs and other criminal justice policies which have resulted in the overincarceration of Americans, with prison costs skyrocketing and not enough being spent on education. Support saving money through sentencing reform and a reduction of prison costs. Support clemency for Troy Davis, or at least a reduction in his pending death sentence. Support strong election protection in 2012 Presidential election. Oppose overly punitive anti-gang measures as well as mandatory minimums and instead support proposals which would create community based groups to try to prevent gang creation and recruitment. Support re-enfranchisement of ex-felony offenders. Support H.R. 2212. Support eliminating racial discrimination by prosecutors. Support H.R. 1771. Support eliminating employment discrimination. Support the Employment Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 1397 / S. 811. Support Department of Justice Civil Rights' Division activities in Dayton, Ohio, as it relates to admittance to training facilities for police officers and firefighters. Oppose proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support S. 952, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Support HR 3051 to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. Support commuting the death sentence of Troy Davis. Support increased Department of Justice activity into investigating lynchings and other reports of hate crimes in Mississippi and Georgia. Support the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670 / H.R. 3618 Support the Webb amendment to HR 2112 establishing a National Criminal Justice Review Commission. Oppose H.R. 966, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Support Justice Louis Butler, Jr., to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Support a prohibition on potential employers from asking about an applicants criminal background in the initial employment application. Concerns about proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Oppose discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Support HR 1681. Support full funding for programs under the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2012. Support the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department in the case involving the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its entrance exam for men and women who aspired to become police officers or firefighters for the city. Support HR 2189, requiring a report on deaths in custody. Opposed to mandatory minimum sentences in S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. Support funding in FY 2012 for Juvenile Justice programs. Specifically, we support: $75 million for the Title II State Formula Grants Program of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); $65 million for the JJDPA Title V Local Delinquency Prevention Program, with no earmarks; $55 million for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program (JABG), and $100 million for mentoring programs. Oppose The Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (H.R. 1254). Support an eminent domain policy that is transparent and provides for fair ands adequate compensation for those affected by eminent domain. Support the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act (H.R. 3781). Support the re-authorization of and full funding for the Violence Against Women Act. Support S. 1925. Support legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Support H.R. 3051. Work to bring racial and ethnic diversity to the Eastern Federal Court of North Carolina. Support sentencing reform that provides more flexibility to judges and allows prisoners to earn reductions in their sentences. Support H.R. 2343 Oppose the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (H.R. 966 / S. 533). Support the Justice Integrity Act, H.R. 1771. Support legislation to encourage youth to stay away from gangs and become productive members of society. Support the Youth PROMISE Act, H.R. 2721. Support the Department of Homeland Security undertaking a comprehensive publicly-reported audit of the civil rights impact of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening policies on racial and religious minorities. Support H.R. 2189, the "Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2011." Oppose religious profiling by law enforcement. Support the U.S. Department of Justice invoking the Voting Rights Act to delay or forestall the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting or registering to vote. Oppose increasing the budget for the US Bureau or Prisons in fiscal year 2013 and implement cost-saving strategies (both administrative and legislative) instead. Support funding for Second Chance Act programs in FY2013. Support to a thorough examination by US Department of Justice of federal sentencing policy. Support an expansion of the Bureau of Prisons Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP). Support U.S. Sentencing Commission consideration of a two-level downward adjustment to the drug quantity table and support the Commissions proposal to expand the safety valve. Support an expanded use of Compassionate Release by the US Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011(H.R. 1254). Oppose attempts by Corrections Corporation of America to purchase and privatize state prisons. Oppose legislation which would impose unprecedented burdens on parties in cases involving a wide array of federal protections in areas such as environmental, consumer, health care, and civil rights laws. Oppose H.R. 3041, H.R. 3862, and H.R. 1996. Support S. 1925, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Support the settlement between U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America over Countrywide's discriminatory mortgage lending practices. Support reducing the exorbitant rates for telephone calls to and from prisons. Support Donna Murphy for a Judgeship at the DC Superior Court. Support consistent, reasonable phone rates for incarcerated people. Support the reinstatement of nondiscrimination language into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that would prohibit organizations from engaging in religious discrimination using federal dollars. Support for the development of comprehensive standards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Support an amendment in the US House of Representatives to the Appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security that will ensure that no Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds are used to profile American citizens on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. Support the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with individuals and organizations with expertise on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), to issue and implement regulations that terminate the program in its entirety; remove residual penalties associated with NSEERS for all affected individuals; and discontinue the use of data collected through NSEERS by DHS and other law enforcement agencies. Support an investigation into the activities of the Office of the Pardon Attorney since at least 2001. Oppose H.R. 4970, the bill introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support full funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Oppose inclusion of any new mandatory minimum sentencing provisions in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support strengthening the DOJ Guidance on racial profiling to address profiling by religion and national origin, to close the loopholes for the border and national security, and to make the guidance enforceable. Oppose policy "riders" on the Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill for FY 13 which would prohibit the US DoJ from supporting legal efforts to oppose photo identification when voting; supporting legal efforts to implement the EEOC criminal background check guidance; support legal efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act; support legal efforts to overturn all or part of state anti-immigrant laws; support secret ballot union elections and support lawsuits or settlements in race discrimination mortgage cases. Support Prosecutors' and Public Defenders' Loan repayment program. Support Tierney (MA) amendment to HR 5326. Support Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants. Support Community Oriented Policing Services Program. Support the Legal Services Corporation.. Support thee Court-Appointed Special Advocate Program. Oppose "Stand your Ground" laws at the state level; call for a federal repeal of all such statutes. Strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder; opposition to a contempt of Congress citation against him; strongly oppose H. Res. 711. Disapprove of the behavior of House Oversight Committee Chairman Issa's behavior. Support H. Res. 718. Support Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act as reported be the Committee. Support S. 1925. Support Paul Watford's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Urge the Department of Justice to support efforts to collect separate data on hate crimes directed against Sikhs, Arabs, and Hindus as part of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) data collection programs. Support the use of federal funding for syringe access programs in the FY 2013 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (LHHS) Appropriations bill. Support a presidential summit on religious tolerance to address the growing number of violent attacks on minority religious communities and houses of worship. Support the U.S. Department of Justice conducting a full impartial investigation that will get at the roots of this persistent problem of government misconduct in death penalty cases and restore public faith in the U.S. criminal justice system. Oppose S. 2188 / H.R. 822 / H.R. 3543, "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act." Oppose "Operation Streamline"; oppose the appropriation of $25,865,000 for 1,000 new low security contract confinement beds, as proposed in the 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill. Encourage the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on hate crimes and the Department of Justice's implementation of the Mathew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Statistics Act. Support people of all faiths and no faith, and the religious freedom of all Americans to practiceor choose not to practicea religion without fear of criticism or suspicion. Support the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act as passed by the U.S. Senate (S. 1925). Support for funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Advocated that the United States use its stature and position to have the NAACP policy agenda included in any and all relevant United Nations' treaties and other compliance documents. Oppose the creation of new Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prison beds, operated by the Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Operation Streamline. Support an investigation that will get at the roots of this persistent problem of government misconduct in death penalty cases and restore public faith in the U.S. criminal justice system by the US Department of Justice. Support the Leahy amendment to HR 2471 which would update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to provide protection to communications such as e-mail, private social network posts, and other information stored in the cloud. Support the Department of Justice collecting separate data on hate crimes directed against Sikhs, Arabs, and Hindus as part of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) data collection programs. Support an Executive Order Establishing a Fair Sentencing Act Review Board to Consider Relief for People Serving Sentences Under the Now Discredited 100-to-1 Crack Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Oppose the Black amendment to HR 5326 dealing with state immigration lawsuits
2012 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
S.250, Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.306, National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011. S.401, Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act of 2011. H.R.2316, Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011. S.132, Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011. S.1231, the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.1301, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011. H.R. 3796, the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2011 Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Proposed Rule on Confidential Treatment of Privileged Information, Docket No. CFPB-2012-0010; RIN 3170-AA20, 77 Fed. Reg. 15286 (March 15, 2012) and Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 39617 (July 5, 2012) H.R. 4014, S. 2099, S. 3394, legislation clarifying that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can receive privileged information from supervised entities and share the information with other federal agencies without waiving the attorney-client privilege as to third parties H.R.2212/S.2017, Democracy Restoration Act H.R.2242, Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2011 H.R.2244, Prisoner Incentive Act of 2011 H.R.2303, Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2011 S. 1670, H.R.3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S. 2197, the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012 Advocated adoption of ABA Standards in regards to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission to Eliminate Prison Rape. Advocated policy in regards to oversight of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to policies that may reduce barriers to employment of persons with criminal records Proposed changes to Department of Housing and Urban Development policy involving waiver of attorney-client privilege and work product protections (including the written policy set forth in the HUDs February 3, 2006 formal Notice to public housing authorities and permanently incorporated into HUD guidance at Appendix 6 to HUD Handbook 1530.1 REV-5, Litigation dated May 2004 and Section 7.4G of HUD Handbook 7460.8 REV-2, Procurement Handbook for Public Housing Agencies dated March 2007, and the informal policy of requesting that such public housing authorities waive these protections during audits and investigations)
2012 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: H.R. 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 963, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S. 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; CA TRUST Act, - Issues Lobbied: State measure restricting compliance with ICE detainers; Draft Executive Order, Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H. Con. Res. 141, Stop Harming Our Kids Resolution - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; H. Res 646, Expressing the sense of the House that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the `adult entertainment' section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H..R 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.J. Res. 100, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the use of public funds to pay for campaigns for election to Federal office. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 111, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures in political campaigns and to enact public financing systems for such campaigns. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 72, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to regulate campaign contributions for Federal elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 78, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds for political activity by corporations. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 8, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to limitations on the amounts of contributions and expenditures that may be made in connection with campaigns for election to public office. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 82, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing regulation of any expenditure in connection with an election. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 86, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures with respect to elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 88, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 90, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the au - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 92, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the disbursement of funds for political activity by for-profit corporations and other for-profit business organizations. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.J. Res. 97, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures with respect to Federal elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1116, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 1397, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 1404, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1519, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 1627, Honoring Americas Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 166, Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 1681, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; H.R. 1775, Stolen Valor Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1996, Government Litigation Savings Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2164, Legal Workforce Act - Issues Lobbied: Oppose e-verify, privacy; H.R. 2168, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 2212, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 282, To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 3027, The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; H.R. 3030, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 3053, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; H.R. 3165, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; H.R. 3485, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 3523, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3600, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, privacy, first amendment, national security, criminal justice, police practices; H.R. 3674, PRECISE Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; H.R. 3881, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings; H.R. 4010, Disclosure of Information on Spending on Campaigns Leads to Open and Secure Elections Act of 2012 (DISCLOSE) - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 4271, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 4310, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF, Reproductive Rights, National Security, civil liberties, Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation, First Amendment, LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to DiscriminateAbortion, Indefinite Detention, Religious Discrimi; H.R. 483, Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 495, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; H.R. 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration provisions on DUI, immigration court procedure, PREA; H.R. 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; H.R. 5743, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Intelligence Authorization; H.R. 5799, Voter Empowerment Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 5848, Juror Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 5854, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations for FY2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5855, DHS Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, VIPR Squads, SPOT Program, Drones; H.R. 5949, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; First Amendment: Intelligence collection; H.R. 5973, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5978, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Racial Justice; H.R. 6019, Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 6046, Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 611, BEST PRACTICES Act - Issues Lobbied: Online privacy; H.R. 6199, Preserving American Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; H.R. 6529, ECPA 2.0 Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 654, Do Not Track Me Online Act - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy; H.R. 6676, Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; H.R. 693, E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 800, Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 96, Internet Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 98, Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 998, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 1212, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 1409, Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Criminal Justice; S. 1605, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S. 1670, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, privacy, first amendment, national security\, criminal justice, police practices; S. 1728, Stolen Valor Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 1732, Privacy Act Modernization for the Information Age of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 1770, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; S. 1910, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 1925, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration provisions on DUI, immigration court procedure, PREA, Womens Rights, First Amendment; S. 1994, Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2003, Due Process Guarantee Act - Issues Lobbied: Due Process for suspected Terrorists (U.S. Citizens and LPRs); S. 2017, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S. 2020, Restraint and Seclusion/ The Keeping All Students Safe Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S. 2105, Cybersecurity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 2219, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; S. 306, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S. 3220, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. 3254, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Indefinite Detention, Transfer Restrictions, Reproductive Rights, National Security, civil liberties, Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation/ LGBT, Abortion, LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; S. 3257, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3276, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National Security, privacy, First Amendment, intelligence collection, Cybersecurity; S. 3287, Protect Americans Against Unwarranted Drone Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drone use, privacy; S. 3317, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Racial Justice; S. 3342, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3369, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3372, Military Service Integrity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3414, CSA2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3454, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Intelligence Authorization, Leaks Amendments; S. 3515, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3565, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 3608, Voter Empowerment Act (omnibus including DRA, Caging, Deceptive Practices), legislation to address long voting lines, other affirmative voting rights bills - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S. 3618, Jury ACCESS Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S. 505, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S. 555, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 74, Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; S. 750, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 811, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S.2102, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S.2151, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S.J. Res. 29, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 33, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 35, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to authorizing regulation of contributions to candidates for State public office and Federal office by corporations, entities organized and operated for profit, an - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment Congressional Issues without Bills: Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights: Civil Rights Data Collection - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability; School Discipline: Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy: Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial Justice: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights: Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy: Defense of Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights: Department of Justice Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security and civil liberties; Privacy: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers: TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy: DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,: DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance - Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance: Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking: Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices: FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government: Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice: Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment: Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice: Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences: June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices: Juvenile Life without Parole - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Racial Justice,: License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing: National Counter Terrorism Center - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing: Over-Classification Reduction - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification: Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security: Reform of the US Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights: School discipline and the School to prison pipeline - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline: The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice:U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights, Abortion; Human Rights: Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection: Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy: Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice: Additional Issues Lobbied: Torture, Targeted Killing, Immigration Reform, STEM Visa Proposal, Border Abuses, 287(g) Programs, Border Enforcement, CBP oversight and excessive use of force, TSA Reform, Immigration Reform and Attorney Fees Issues, Charitable Deductions, Disability Rights, Judicial Vacancies, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Torture Report, Voting Rights, Securitization, Drone Forum Agencies: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Issues Lobbied: Fair Lending Regulations: Corporation for National and Community Service - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Agriculture - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking: Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Immigration reform; National Defense Authorization Act FY13 (H.R. 4310/S. 3254); Reproductive Rights; Women's rights: Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; FERPA Privacy Regulations; Student privacy; Single Sex Education; School discipline guidance (OCR); Civil Rights Data Collection (OCR): Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Reproductive Rights-contraception coverage: emergency contraception, emergency care, government contracts; Sex Discrimination; Healthcare Coverage for Deferred Action Immigrants; RIN 0938-AR03: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Standards Related to Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, and Accreditation: Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Immigration Reform; 287(g) program; Expose and close- immigration detention (Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties); National ID; employment verification; privacy; Use of datamining technologies by the government; Government Watch Lists; REAL ID; Privacy, National ID; National Security; Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; Radicalization; Suspicious Activity Reports (H.R. 495, H.R. 963, S. 505); Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Fusion Centers; National Security Entry-Exit Registration System; DHS Budget; LGBT; Immigrants Rights: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Comments on Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Continuum of Care Program, Docket No. FR-5476-I-01; Religious Bias: Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Immigration reform; Executive Order 13559; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 13279; Church-State Seperation; LGBT; Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Religious Hate Crimes Data Collection; Religious Discrimination; Religious Profling; Reproductive Rights; DOJs reponse to U.S. v. Simmons case in North Carolina; Commutations and Pardons; PREA rule covering immigration detainees; Sex Abuse in DHS Custody; Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking; Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act (H.R. 2168/S. 1212); National Security; Privacy; Civil Liberties: FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government: DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance; FISA Amendment Act reauthorization (H.R. 5949, S. 3276); School discipline guidance; Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation; Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD); Civil Rights; Human Rights; Sentencing; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice; Indigent Defense Reform; Federal Over-Criminalization; Juvenile Life without Parole; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies: Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation (OFCCP): Department of State - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of the Interior - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Department of Transportation - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Discrimination; LGBT; Relationships:Department of Veterans Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation; Women's rights: Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines: Environmental Protection Agency - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records: Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Trafficking, Faith Based Funding, Human Rights Agenda, Immigration Reform, Immigration Detention Condision, Indefinite Detention, FSA Review Board, Abortion Coverage, Second Term Agenda: FBI - Issues Lobbied: National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Radicalization: Federal Aviation Association - Issues Lobbied: Domestic drones; Privacy: Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Framework of Broadband Access; Net Neutrality; Media Ownership; Media Diveristy, Civil Rights: Federal Election Commission - Issues Lobbied: Electioneering Communications: Federal Trade Commission - Issues Lobbied: COPPA (16 CFR Part 312); Online Privacy;: Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigration detainers; Expose and close- immigration detention (ICE and the Office of Detention Policy and Planning): Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement: National Archives and Records Administration - Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction; National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing: National Economic Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment; privacy; location tracking: National Security Agency - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order on Human Rights: National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Issues Lobbied: Privacy Multistakeholder Process: Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: REAL ID; Privacy, National ID; E.O. 13,490; First Amendment; Over-Classification Reduction: Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: RIN 3206-AM47; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program for the Affordable Insurance Exchanges: Peace Corps - Issues Lobbied: Women's Rights: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence Oversight, Privacy: Small Business Administration - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: U.S. Agency for International Development - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; Church-State Separation: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Issues Lobbied: DACA/Deferred Action for DREAMers: U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; CBP oversight; Excessive Use of Force; Safe repatriation: U.S. Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; First Amendment: U.S. Government Accountability Office - Issues Lobbied: PREA rule covering immigration detainees; Sex Abuse in DHS Custody: United States Patent and Trademark Office - Issues Lobbied: Gene Patenting: White House - Issues Lobbied: Torture; Targeted killing; Indefinite detention; Immigration Reform; Executive Order 13559; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 13279; Church-State Seperation; LGBT; Executive Order 13559: Presidents Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Working Group Report Analysis; NDAA (H.R. 4310) Conscience Amendment Sec. 533; National Defense Authorization Act FY13 (H.R. 4310/S. 3254); Reproductive Rights; Commutations and Pardons; Expose and close- immigration detention; Privacy: Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; National Security: Privacy; Civil Liberties; FBI oversight; law enforcement oversight; open government; DHS oversight; domestic spying; fusion centers; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate, Immigrants Rights, Human Rights, HIV/AIDS
2012 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 228, the Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act, would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; H.R. 324, legislation which would grant statutory arrest authority to law enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Department of Defense; H.R. 365/S. 657, the "National Blue Alert," legislation creating an alert system for law enforcement officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty; H.R. 498, the "State and Local Law Enforcement Hatch Act Reform Act," which would amend the Hatch Act to allow local and State law enforcement officers to be candidates for the office of Sheriff and permit Sheriffs to engage in political activity; H.R. 815, the Justice for Public Servants Act, would expand the death penalty by adding the murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, Member of Congress or Congressional employee as aggravating factors in death penalty cases; H.R. 1416/S. 755, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; H.R. 1505/H.R. 2578, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which would give the U.S. Border Patrol the authority to fully patrol Federally own lands; H.R. 3416/S. 1483, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, would help law enforcement combat the misuse of U.S. corporations by requiring States to obtain beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies formed under State law; H.R. 4310/S. 3254, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013"; H.R. 1789, the State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability and Due Process Act, which would protect the due process rights of officers during internal investigations; H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act, which would improve the ability of law enforcement to combat trafficking in child pornography; H.R. 2168/S. 1212, the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, which would significantly increase the requirements that must be met by law enforcemnt before they could request geolocation information on potential vicims or suspects; H.R. 2492/S. 1947, the "Animal Fight Spectator Prohibition Act," which would make it a crime to attend or bring a minor to any event or venture at which animals are forced to fight; H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; H.R. 3416/S. 1483, the "Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act," which would give law enforcement access to the beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies (LLCs) formed under State laws; H.R. 4223/S. 1002, the "Strengthening and Focusing Enforcement to Deter Organized Stealing and Enhance Safety (SAFE DOSES) Act," which would increase the penalties for the theft and resale of medical products; H.R. 3618/S. 1670, the End Racial Profiling Act, which would define racial profiling as any consideration of race, national origin or ethnic origin to initiate a traffic stop or vehicle search absent an eyewitness description and requires the collection of race and other data by State and local law enforcement during routine investigatory activities; H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act, enhances the ability of law enforcement to combat child pornography by increasing the penalties of possessing child pornography and reauthorizing the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces; H.R. 6628/S. 3250, the "Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry (SAFER) Act," which would assist State and local law enforcement agencies reduce the laboratory and storage rape kit backlogs by funding audits of untested sexual assault evidence; S. 306, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act," which would create a National Commission to examine the U.S. criminal justice systems at the State and Federal level; S. 513, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, would increase penalties on those who tailor-market illegal drugs to entice children to purchase them; S. 890, the Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act, would redirect money in the Working Capital fund toward additional fraud enforcement efforts and give the US Secret Service the permanent authority to conduct undercover operations; S. 968 , the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP) Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; S. 1925, the "Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act," specifically on language to expand the U Visa program; S. 3187, the "Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act," specifically on an amenment to reschedule the drug hydrocodone; and Legislation which would normalize relations with Cuba until that nation ceases to be a safe harbor for cop-killers and other fugitives.
2012 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
COPS enhancement authorization bill (S. 207); Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act (H.R. 1823); State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act (H.R. 1789); The National Blue Alert Act (S. 657 and H.R. 365); Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (S. 1925); National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 822 and S. 2188); Local Courthouse Safety Act (S. 2076); Eliminate Racial Profiling Act (S. 1670 and H.R. 3618)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE
2012 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
HR 3618 End Racial Profiling Act. Lobbied in support of this bill on the house side.
Client expense: $391,108 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2012 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 228, the Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act, would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; H.R. 324, legislation which would grant statutory arrest authority to law enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Department of Defense; H.R. 365/S. 657, the "National Blue Alert," legislation creating an alert system for law enforcement officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty; H.R. 498, the "State and Local Law Enforcement Hatch Act Reform Act," which would amend the Hatch Act to allow local and State law enforcement officers to be candidates for the office of Sheriff and permit Sheriffs to engage in political activity; H.R. 815, the Justice for Public Servants Act, would expand the death penalty by adding the murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, Member of Congress or Congressional employee as aggravating factors in death penalty cases; H.R. 1416, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; H.R. 1505/H.R. 2578, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which would give the U.S. Border Patrol the authority to fully patrol Federally own lands; H.R. 3416/S. 1483, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, would help law enforcement combat the misuse of U.S. corporations by requiring States to obtain beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies formed under State law; H.R. 4310/S. 3254, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013;"; H.R. 1789, the State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability and Due Process Act,which would protect the due process rights of officers during internal investigations; H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act, which would improve the ability of law enforcement to combat trafficking in child pornography; H.R. 2168/S. 1212, the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, which would significantly increase the requirements that must be met by law enforcemnt before thy could request geolocation information on potential vicims or suspects; H.R. 2492/S. 1947, the "Animal Fight Spectator Prohibition Act," which would make it a crime to attend or bring a minor to any event or venture at which animals are forced to fight; H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; H.R. 4223/S. 1002, the "Strengthening and Focusing Enforcement to Deter Organized Stealing and Enhance Safety (SAFE DOSES) Act," which would increase the penalties for the theft and resale of medical products; H.R. 3618/S. 1670, the End Racial Profiling Act, which would define racial profiling as any consideration of race, national origin or ethnic origin to initiate a traffic stop or vehicle search absent an eyewitness description and requires the collection of race and other data by State and local law enforcement during routine investigatory activities; H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act, enhances the ability of law enforcement to combat child pornography by increasing the penalties of possessing child pornography and reauthorizing the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces; S. 306, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act," which would create a National Commission to examine the U.S. criminal justice systems at the State and Federal level; S. 513, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, would increase penalties on those who tailor-market illegal drugs to entice children to purchase them; S. 755, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; S. 890, the Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act, would redirect money in the Working Capital fund toward additional fraud enforcement efforts and give the US Secret Service the permanent authority to conduct undercover operations; S. 968 , the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP) Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; S. 1925, the "Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act," specifically on language to expand the U Visa program; S. 3187, the "Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act," specifically on an amenment to reschedule the drug hydrocodone; and Legislation which would normalize relations with Cuba until that nation ceases to be a safe harbor for cop-killers and other fugitives.
2012 · third_quarter · Government Issues
Second Chance Act S1231 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S1670, HR3618 CJS Appropriations - Schweikert amendment to HR 5326 re: DOJ bar to enforcement of the Voting Rights Act Voter Empowerment Act HR5799 National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 S306 Grassroots Democracy Act HR6426 National Month of Voter Registration HRes758, SRes572 Intelligence Authorization Act for 2012 S3454 Empowering Citizens Act HR6448 Stop and frisk and racial profiling
Client expense: $8,949 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), SENATE
2012 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R.74, Private Prison Information Act of 2011 H.R.82, Drug Court Reauthorization Act. H.R.224, Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act. H.R. 313, Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 S.250, Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.306, National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011. S.401, Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act of 2011. H.R.2316, Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011. H.R.2449, Fresh Start Act of 2011 S.132, Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011. S.645/H.R.1360, Child Protection Improvements Act of 2011. S.1231, the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.1301, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011. H.R. 2870, the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2011 Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Proposed Rule on Confidential Treatment of Privileged Information, Docket No. CFPB-2012-0010; RIN 3170-AA20, 77 Fed. Reg. 15286 (March 15, 2012) and Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 39617 (July 5, 2012) H.R. 4014, S. 2099, legislation clarifying that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can receive privileged information from supervised entities and share the information with other federal agencies without waiving the attorney-client privilege as to third parties H.R.1823, Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act of 2011 H.R.1254, Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 H.R.1771, Justice Integrity Act H.R.1793, Clean Up Government Act of 2011 H.R.1913, Bryne/JAG Program Accountability Act H.R.2212/S.2017, Democracy Restoration Act H.R.2242, Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2011 H.R.2243, Literacy, Education and Rehabilitation Act H.R.2244, Prisoner Incentive Act of 2011 H.R.2303, Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2011 S. 1670, H.R.3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S.1731, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2011 S. 605, the Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 S. 1927, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 S. 2195, the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012 Advocated adoption of ABA Standards in regards to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission to Eliminate Prison Rape. Advocated policy in regards to oversight of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to policies that may reduce barriers to employment of persons with criminal records
2012 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
H.R.1397, S.811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 S. 1925 The Violence Against Women Act H.R.3618, S. 1670 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 H.R. 1519, S. 3220 Paycheck Fairness Act District of Columbia House Voting Rights H.R. 1116, S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act S. 3317/H.R. 5978 Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012 H.R. 5799 Voter Empowerment Act of 2012 S. 581 Child Care Protection Act of 2011 S. 2189 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act Agriculture, Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 King Amendment to H.R. 5856 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013), relating to Defense of Marriage Act S. 3618/H.R. 5848, The Jury ACCESS (ACCESS for Capable Citizens and Equality in Service Selection) Act
Client expense: $174,866 · Firm income: Not reported
2012 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
COPS enhancement authorization bill (S. 207); Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act (H.R. 1823); State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act (H.R. 1789); The National Blue Alert Act (S. 657 and H.R. 365); Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (S. 1925); National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 822 and S. 2188); Local Courthouse Safety Act (S. 2076); Eliminate Racial Profiling Act (S. 1670 and H.R. 3618)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE
2012 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Support the elimination of racial disparities in state, local and federal law enforcement. End racial profiling. Abolish the death penalty; support the establishment of a commission to study problems surrounding the Death Penalty and a moratorium on implementing the death penalty until the study is complete. Completely eliminate Crack Cocaine / Powder cocaine sentencing disparities, and apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively. Support H.R. 2242. Support sentencing reform. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Support continued funding for COPS program. Support full funding for ex-felony offender programs (the Second Chance Act). Support prisoner literacy, education and rehabilitation. Support law enforcement trust & integrity. Support increased enforcement activities by the US DoJ, Civil Rights Division. Support legislation to help youth stay away from gangs . Support a review of prosecutorial decisions, and any racial implications therein . Support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, and oppose any amendments that may result in more juveniles being tried as adults. Support S. 306, a bill to establish a blue ribbon National Criminal Justice Commission. Support the recommended national standards developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Support anti-SLAPP suit legislation. Support Restorative Justice Initiatives. Ensure that fair and impartial judges are nominated to the federal bench and that they are confirmed. Support Anita Earls for a federal judgeship .Support the Legal Services Corp. Opposed to proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support hiring a progressive reformer with a proven record of rehabilitation for the new Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Support applying the new guidelines for Crack cocaine conviction retroactively to those currently incarcerated (testify before the US Sentencing Commission). Support for the elimination of the War on Drugs and other criminal justice policies which have resulted in the overincarceration of Americans, with prison costs skyrocketing and not enough being spent on education. Support saving money through sentencing reform and a reduction of prison costs. Support clemency for Troy Davis, or at least a reduction in his pending death sentence. Support strong election protection in 2012 Presidential election. Oppose overly punitive anti-gang measures as well as mandatory minimums and instead support proposals which would create community based groups to try to prevent gang creation and recruitment. Support re-enfranchisement of ex-felony offenders. Support H.R. 2212. Support eliminating racial discrimination by prosecutors. Support H.R. 1771. Support eliminating employment discrimination. Support the Employment Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 1397 / S. 811. Support Department of Justice Civil Rights' Division activities in Dayton, Ohio, as it relates to admittance to training facilities for police officers and firefighters. Oppose proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support S. 952, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Support HR 3051 to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. Support commuting the death sentence of Troy Davis. Support increased Department of Justice activity into investigating lynchings and other reports of hate crimes in Mississippi and Georgia. Support the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670 / H.R. 3618 Support the Webb amendment to HR 2112 establishing a National Criminal Justice Review Commission. Oppose H.R. 966, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Support Justice Louis Butler, Jr., to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Support a prohibition on potential employers from asking about an applicants criminal background in the initial employment application. Concerns about proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Oppose discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Support HR 1681. Support full funding for programs under the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2012. Support the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department in the case involving the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its entrance exam for men and women who aspired to become police officers or firefighters for the city. Support HR 2189, requiring a report on deaths in custody. Opposed to mandatory minimum sentences in S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. Support funding in FY 2012 for Juvenile Justice programs. Specifically, we support: $75 million for the Title II State Formula Grants Program of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); $65 million for the JJDPA Title V Local Delinquency Prevention Program, with no earmarks; $55 million for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program (JABG), and $100 million for mentoring programs. Oppose The Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (H.R. 1254). Support an eminent domain policy that is transparent and provides for fair ands adequate compensation for those affected by eminent domain. Support the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act (H.R. 3781). Support the re-authorization of and full funding for the Violence Against Women Act. Support S. 1925. Support legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Support H.R. 3051. Work to bring racial and ethnic diversity to the Eastern Federal Court of North Carolina. Support sentencing reform that provides more flexibility to judges and allows prisoners to earn reductions in their sentences. Support H.R. 2343 Oppose the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (H.R. 966 / S. 533). Support the Justice Integrity Act, H.R. 1771. Support legislation to encourage youth to stay away from gangs and become productive members of society. Support the Youth PROMISE Act, H.R. 2721. Support the Department of Homeland Security undertaking a comprehensive publicly-reported audit of the civil rights impact of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening policies on racial and religious minorities. Support H.R. 2189, the "Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2011." Oppose religious profiling by law enforcement. Support the U.S. Department of Justice invoking the Voting Rights Act to delay or forestall the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting or registering to vote. Oppose increasing the budget for the US Bureau or Prisons in fiscal year 2013 and implement cost-saving strategies (both administrative and legislative) instead. Support funding for Second Chance Act programs in FY2013. Support to a thorough examination by US Department of Justice of federal sentencing policy. Support an expanshion of the Bureau of Prisons Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP). Support U.S. Sentencing Commission consideration of a two-level downward adjustment to the drug quantity table and support the Commissions proposal to expand the safety valve. Support an expanded use of Compassionate Release by the US Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011(H.R. 1254). Oppose attempts by Corrections Corporation of America to purchase and privatize state prisons. Oppose legislation which would impose unprecedented burdens on parties in cases involving a wide array of federal protections in areas such as environmental, consumer, health care, and civil rights laws. Oppose H.R. 3041, H.R. 3862, and H.R. 1996. Support S. 1925, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Support the settlement between U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America over Countrywide's discriminatory mortgage lending practices. Support reducing the exorbitant rates for telephone calls to and from prisons. Support Donna Murphy for a Judgeship at the DC Superior Court. Support consistent, reasonable phone rates for incarcerated people. Support the reinstatment of nondiscrimination language into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that would prohibit organizations from engaging in religious discrimination using federal dollars. Support for the development of comprehensive standards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Support an amendment in the US House of Representatives to the Appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security that will ensure that no Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds are used to profile American citizens on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. Support the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with individuals and organizations with expertise on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), to issue and implement regulations that terminate the program in its entirety; remove residual penalties associated with NSEERS for all affected individuals; and discontinue the use of data collected through NSEERS by DHS and other law enforcement agencies. Support an investigation into the activities of the Office of the Pardon Attorney since at least 2001. Oppose H.R. 4970, the bill introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support full funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Oppose inclusion of any new mandatory minimum sentencing provisions in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support strengthening the DOJ Guidance on racial profiling to address profiling by religion and national origin, to close the loopholes for the border and national security, and to make the guidance enforceable. Oppose policy "riders" on the Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill for FY 13 which would prohibit the US DoJ from supporting legal efforts to oppose photo identification when voting; supporting legal efforts to implement the EEOC criminal background check guidence; support legal efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act; support legal efforts to overturn all or part of state anti-immigrant laws; support secret ballot union elections and support lawsuits or settlements in race discrimination mortgage cases. Support Prosecutors' and Public Defenders' Loan repayment program. Support Tierney (MA) amendment to HR 5326. Support Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants. Support Community Oriented Policing Services Program. Support the Legal Services Corporation.. Support thee Court-Appointed Specal Advocate Program. Oppose "Stand your Ground" laws at the state level; call for a federal repeal of all such statutes. Strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder; opposition to a contempt of Congress citation against him; strongly oppose H. Res. 711. Disapprove of the behavior of House Oversight Committee Chairman Issa's behavior. Support H. Res. 718. Support Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act as reported be the Committee. Support S. 1925. Support Paul Watford's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Urge the Department of Justice to support efforts to collect separate data on hate crimes directed against Sikhs, Arabs, and Hindus as part of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) data collection programs. Support the use of federal funding for syringe access programs in the FY 2013 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (LHHS) Appropriations bill. Support a presidential summit on religious tolerance to address the growing number of violent attacks on minority religious communities and houses of worship. Support the U.S. Department of Justice conductibng a full impartial investigation that will get at the roots of this persistent problem of government misconduct in death penalty cases and restore public faith in the U.S. criminal justice system. Oppose S. 2188 / H.R. 822 / H.R. 3543, "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act." Oppose "Operation Streamline"; oppose the appropriation of $25,865,000 for 1,000 new low security contract confinement beds, as proposed in the 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill. Encourage the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on hate crimes and the Department of Justice's impplimentation of the Mathew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Statistics Act. Support people of all faiths and no faith, and the religious freedom of all Americans to practiceor choose not to practicea religion without fear of criticism or suspicion. Support the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act as passed by the U.S. Senate (S. 1925). Support for funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Advocated that the United States use its stature and position to have the NAACP policy agenda included in any and all relevant United Nations' treaties and other compliance documents.
2012 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation 16 CFR Part 312, COPPA Rule - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; C.A. 1081, CA Trust Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for state measure restricting compliance with ICE detainer requests.; E.O. 13,490, Ethics EO - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; GN Docket No. 12-52, Commission Seeks Comment on Certain Wireless Service Interruptions - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H. Res. 758, Voter Registration Resolutions - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; H.J. Res 117, Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Prison Capacity Funding; H.R. 1116, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 1397, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 1404, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1505, National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1519, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights;; H.R. 166, Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 1681, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; H.R. 1775, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Data retention, privacy; H.R. 1996, Government Litigation Savings Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 216, Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Laptop searches, due process; H.R. 2164, Legal Workforce Act - Issues Lobbied: Oppose e-verify, privacy; H.R. 2168, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 2212, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 2769, Parental Consent Act of 2011; H.R. 282, To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 3030, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 3053, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination, LGBT Rights; H.R. 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 3485, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 3523, Cybersecurity legislation - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, Information Sharing, Intelligence Collection, Surveillance; H.R. 3600, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices, Religious Profiling, First Amendment; H.R. 3674, PRECISE Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, National Security, Free Speech, Information; H.R. 3803, District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 3828, Military Religious Freedom Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; H.R. 3881, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings; H.R. 4010, Disclosure of Information on Spending on Campaigns Leads to Open and Secure Elections Act of 2012 (DISCLOSE) - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 4192, Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; H.R. 4257, Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; H.R. 4263, SECURE IT Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; H.R. 4271, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 4310, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation, Human Rights, Reproductive Rights, First Amendment, LGBT, Discrimination, Military Abortion, National Security/Detention/AUMF; H.R. 483, Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 495, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; H.R. 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, LGBT, Discrimination; H.R. 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, First Amendment, LGBT, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, BOP Appropriations, National Security/Detention; H.R. 5684, Password Protection Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 5743, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5799, Voter Empowerment Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Voting Rights, Racial Justice; H.R. 5848, Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Discrimination; H.R. 5854, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations for FY2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5855, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, Privacy, VIPR Squads, SPOT Program, Drones, National Security/Detention/AUMF; H.R. 5856, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Relationships, DOMA Amendment; H.R. 5949, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, First Amendment, Intelligence; H.R. 5973, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 5978, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Racial Justice; H.R. 6019, Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 6046, Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; H.R. 611, BEST PRACTICES Act - Issues Lobbied: Online privacy; H.R. 6128 , Help Separated Families Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; H.R. 654, Do Not Track Me Online Act - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy; H.R. 693, E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 800, Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; H.R. 96, Internet Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; H.R. 963, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; H.R. 98, Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 997, English Language Unity Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Immigration; H.R. 998, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 1212, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 1409, Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Criminal Justice; S. 1605, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S. 1670, End Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices, Human Rights, Religious Profiling, First Amendment. Human Rights; S. 1728, Stolen Valor Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 1732, Privacy Act Modernization for the Information Age of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 1770, Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; S. 1910, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 1925, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, LGBT Discrimination, Women's Rights, SAVE Act Provisions, Mandatory Minimums; S. 1994, Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2017, Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; S. 2020, The Keeping All Students Safe Act - Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, Restrain and Seclusion; S. 2102, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 2105, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, Privacy, First Amendment; S. 2151, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; S. 2175, Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; S. 2219, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2234, End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; S. 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform, Immigration, BOP Appropriations, First Amendment, National Security/Detention; S. 306, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S. 3074, Password Protection Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 3078, World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Freedom; S. 3216, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, National Security/Detention; S. 3220, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights;; S. 3245, E-Verify Bill - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 3254, National Defense Authorization Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF, Religious Liberty / Church-State Separation, Human Rights, Reproductive Rights, LGBT, Discrimination, Military Abortion; S. 3257, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3276, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National Security, privacy, First Amendment, intelligence collection; S. 3317, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Racial Justice; S. 3342, SECURE IT - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, National Security, Free Speech, Privacy; S. 3369, DISCLOSE Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance, First Amendment; S. 3372, Military Service Integrity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3414, Cybersecurity Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, Information Sharing, Intelligence Collection, ECPA Reform; S. 3454, Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 3515, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 3526, Military Religious Freedom Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; S. 3565, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 3608, Voter Empowerment Act (omnibus including DRA, Caging, Deceptive Practices) - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; S. 3618, Jury ACCESS Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 505, Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S. 555, Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S. 74, Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; S. 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 750, Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 811, Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, LGBT Discrimination; S. Res. 572, Voter Registration Resolutions - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; S.B. 1070 copycat/ state and local enforcement issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; S.J. Res. 29, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 33, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.J. Res. 35, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to authorizing regulation of contributions to candidates for State public office and Federal office by corporations, entities organized and operated for profit, an - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. Congressional Issues without Bills 287(g) program - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Anti-Torture - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Citizens United - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; Congressional Voting Rights Briefings (ACLU litigation and lobbying updates) - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Disability Rights; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Criminal Alien Requirement detention beds - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Criminal Background Checks - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Deferred action for DREAMers - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance - Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Executive Order on Human Trafficking - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; FBI and DOJ Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Gene Patents - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Hate Crimes/Domestic Extremism - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Islamophobia - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, National Secuirty; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Juvenile Life without Parole - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Racial Justice,; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Location Tracking - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Over-Classification Reduction - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; PREA rule covering immigration detainees - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; PREA rule covering immigration detainees - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Prosecutorial discretion, ICE enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Secure Communities - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Leave Behind on Torture - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Sentencing - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Trafficking Report - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Voting Rights Briefings - Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; Voting/Databases - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Civil Rights. Agencies Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Issues Lobbied: Speech Issues; Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Trafficking, Cyber Information Sharing; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: FERPA Privacy Regulations, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, School bullying and discipline guidance, UPR Implementation and CERD- Civil Society Consultation on Civil Rights and Discrimination/CERD, Single Sex Education, Data Collection; Department of Education -Office of Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, Disability, School Discipline, Civil Rights Data Collection; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Freedom, Sex Education, Abstinence Only Funding; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Use of datamining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, REAL ID, S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ state and local enforcement issues, Secure Communities, 287(g) program, Deferred action for DREAMers, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, Prosecutorial discretion, ICE enforcement, SAVE database voter purging, UPR Implementation and CERD- Civil Society Consultation on Civil Rights and Discrimination/CERD, S.B. 1070 copycat/ state and local enforcement issues, Secure Communities (Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties), 287(g) program (Office of the Inspector General), DACA/ Deferred action for DREAMers, PREA rule covering immigration detainees (Office of General Counsel), CBP oversight and excessive use of force (Office of Inspector General), DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT, Radicalization, Suspicious Activity Reports, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, Racial Profiling, Prolonged Detention, Deferred Action Plan, ICE Whistleblowers, Haiti Deportations, CA TRUST Act, Disaster Zone Immigration Enforcement, 287(g), Detainee Sexual Abuse; Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: UPR Implementation and CERD- Civil Society Consultation on Civil Rights and Discrimination/CERD; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, Privacy, Location tracking, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, School bullying and discipline guidance, Voting Rights Briefings - Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement, SAVE database voter purging, Human Rights Crisis In Puerto Rico, Meeting regarding faith-based initiative, Women's Rights, Jessica Lenahan v. US, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act (Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention), Indigent Defense Reform, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Federal Over-criminalization, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Juvenile Life without Parole, June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, DOJs reponse to U.S. v. Simmons case in North Carolina , S.B. 1070 copycat/ state and local enforcement issues, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, State Secrets, Sentencing, Juvenile Facility Staffing, PREA implementation; Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: UPR Implementation and CERD- Civil Society Consultation on Civil Rights and Discrimination/CERD, Trafficking; Department of State - Issues Lobbied: Trafficking, Human Rights Treaties Review Process; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records, Comments on EEOC strategic enforcement, Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Racial Justice, LGBT, UPR Implementation and CERD- Civil Society Consultation on Civil Rights and Discrimination/CERD, LGBT, HIV/AIDS, Discrimination, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Strategic Enforcement Plan, Women's Rights, Discrimination Strategic Plan Priorities; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: DREAM Health Care, LGBT Rights, Immigration, Human Rights; FBI - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, Radicalization , Interrogations, Isolation; FCC - Issues Lobbied: Framework of Broadband Access, Net Neutrality, Media Ownership, Media diversity, Civil rights, First Amendment, GN Docket No. 12-52; Federal Trade Commission - Issues Lobbied: COPPA, Privacy; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: DACA/ Deferred action for DREAMers; National Archives and Records Administration - Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Institute of Health - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Health Issues; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: REAL ID, E.O. 13,490, Reproductive Freedom, Sex Education, Secure Communities, 287(g) program, DACA/ Deferred action for DREAMers, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, CBP oversight and excessive use of force, Over-Classification Reduction, Sex Education/Abstinence Only Funding, Immigration Access to Counsel; Office of the United States Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; Peace Corps - Issues Lobbied: Peace Corps Manual, Women's Rights, Pregnancy Leave; U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: CBP oversight and excessive use of force; U.S. Sentencing Commission - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Priorities; White House - Issues Lobbied: Trafficking, Transition Issues, Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, White House Privacy Report, S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ state and local enforcement issues, Deferred action for DREAMers, Reproductive Freedom, Sex Education, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Domestic Policy Counsel), S.B. 1070 copycat/ state and local enforcement issues, DACA/ Deferred action for DREAMers, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, CBP oversight and excessive use of force, DHS appropriations, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, EO 12333; White House Domestic Policy Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Affirmative Action in Education, Education; Racial Justice; School Diversity
2012 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
National Criminal Justice Commission Act, S. 306 End Racial Profiling Act, H.R. 3618; S. 1670
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)
2012 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Support the elimination of racial disparities in state, local and federal law enforcement. End racial profiling. Abolish the death penalty; support the establishment of a commission to study problems surrounding the Death Penalty and a moratorium on implementing the death penalty until the study is complete. Completely eliminate Crack Cocaine / Powder cocaine sentencing disparities, and apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively. Support H.R. 2242. Support sentencing reform. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Support continued funding for COPS program. Support full funding for ex-felony offender programs (the Second Chance Act). Support prisoner literacy, education and rehabilitation. Support law enforcement trust & integrity. Support increased enforcement activities by the US DoJ, Civil Rights Division. Support legislation to help youth stay away from gangs . Support a review of prosecutorial decisions, and any racial implications therein . Support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, and oppose any amendments that may result in more juveniles being tried as adults. Support S. 306, a bill to establish a blue ribbon National Criminal Justice Commission. Support the recommended national standards developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Support anti-SLAPP suit legislation. Support Restorative Justice Initiatives. Ensure that fair and impartial judges are nominated to the federal bench and that they are confirmed. Support Anita Earls for a federal judgeship .Support the Legal Services Corp. Opposed to proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support hiring a progressive reformer with a proven record of rehabilitation for the new Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Support applying the new guidelines for Crack cocaine conviction retroactively to those currently incarcerated (testify before the US Sentencing Commission). Support for the elimination of the War on Drugs and other criminal justice policies which have resulted in the overincarceration of Americans, with prison costs skyrocketing and not enough being spent on education. Support saving money through sentencing reform and a reduction of prison costs. Support clemency for Troy Davis, or at least a reduction in his pending death sentence. Support strong election protection in 2012 Presidential election. Oppose overly punitive anti-gang measures as well as mandatory minimums and instead support proposals which would create community based groups to try to prevent gang creation and recruitment. Support re-enfranchisement of ex-felony offenders. Support H.R. 2212. Support eliminating racial discrimination by prosecutors. Support H.R. 1771. Support eliminating employment discrimination. Support the Employment Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 1397 / S. 811. Support Department of Justice Civil Rights' Division activities in Dayton, Ohio, as it relates to admittance to training facilities for police officers and firefighters. Oppose proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support S. 952, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Support HR 3051 to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. Support commuting the death sentence of Troy Davis. Support increased Department of Justice activity into investigating lynchings and other reports of hate crimes in Mississippi and Georgia. Support the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670 / H.R. 3618 Support the Webb amendment to HR 2112 establishing a National Criminal Justice Review Commission. Oppose H.R. 966, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Support Justice Louis Butler, Jr., to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Support a prohibition on potential employers from asking about an applicants criminal background in the initial employment application. Concerns about proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Oppose discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Support HR 1681. Support full funding for programs under the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2012. Support the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department in the case involving the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its entrance exam for men and women who aspired to become police officers or firefighters for the city. Support HR 2189, requiring a report on deaths in custody. Opposed to mandatory minimum sentences in S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. Support funding in FY 2012 for Juvenile Justice programs. Specifically, we support: $75 million for the Title II State Formula Grants Program of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); $65 million for the JJDPA Title V Local Delinquency Prevention Program, with no earmarks; $55 million for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program (JABG), and $100 million for mentoring programs. Oppose The Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (H.R. 1254). Support an eminent domain policy that is transparent and provides for fair ands adequate compensation for those affected by eminent domain. Support the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act (H.R. 3781). Support the re-authorization of and full funding for the Violence Against Women Act. Support S. 1925. Support legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Support H.R. 3051. Work to bring racial and ethnic diversity to the Eastern Federal Court of North Carolina. Support sentencing reform that provides more flexibility to judges and allows prisoners to earn reductions in their sentences. Support H.R. 2343 Oppose the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (H.R. 966 / S. 533). Support the Justice Integrity Act, H.R. 1771. Support legislation to encourage youth to stay away from gangs and become productive members of society. Support the Youth PROMISE Act, H.R. 2721. Support the Department of Homeland Security undertaking a comprehensive publicly-reported audit of the civil rights impact of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening policies on racial and religious minorities. Support H.R. 2189, the "Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2011." Oppose religious profiling by law enforcement. Support the U.S. Department of Justice invoking the Voting Rights Act to delay or forestall the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting or registering to vote. Oppose increasing the budget for the US Bureau or Prisons in fiscal year 2013 and implement cost-saving strategies (both administrative and legislative) instead. Support funding for Second Chance Act programs in FY2013. Support to a thorough examination by US Department of Justice of federal sentencing policy. Support an expanshion of the Bureau of Prisons Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP). Support U.S. Sentencing Commission consideration of a two-level downward adjustment to the drug quantity table and support the Commissions proposal to expand the safety valve. Support an expanded use of Compassionate Release by the US Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011(H.R. 1254). Oppose attempts by Corrections Corporation of America to purchase and privatize state prisons. Oppose legislation which would impose unprecedented burdens on parties in cases involving a wide array of federal protections in areas such as environmental, consumer, health care, and civil rights laws. Oppose H.R. 3041, H.R. 3862, and H.R. 1996. Support S. 1925, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Support the settlement between U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America over Countrywide's discriminatory mortgage lending practices. Support reducing the exorbitant rates for telephone calls to and from prisons. Support Donna Murphy for a Judgeship at the DC Superior Court. Support consistent, reasonable phone rates for incarcerated people. Support the reinstatment of nondiscrimination language into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that would prohibit organizations from engaging in religious discrimination using federal dollars. Support for the development of comprehensive standards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Support an amendment in the US House of Representatives to the Appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security that will ensure that no Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds are used to profile American citizens on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. Support the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with individuals and organizations with expertise on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), to issue and implement regulations that terminate the program in its entirety; remove residual penalties associated with NSEERS for all affected individuals; and discontinue the use of data collected through NSEERS by DHS and other law enforcement agencies. Support an investigation into the activities of the Office of the Pardon Attorney since at least 2001. Oppose H.R. 4970, the bill introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support full funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Oppose inclusion of any new mandatory minimum sentencing provisions in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support strengthening the DOJ Guidance on racial profiling to address profiling by religion and national origin, to close the loopholes for the border and national security, and to make the guidance enforceable. Oppose policy "riders" on the Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill for FY 13 which would prohibit the US DoJ from supporting legal efforts to oppose photo identification when voting; supporting legal efforts to implement the EEOC criminal background check guidence; support legal efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act; support legal efforts to overturn all or part of state anti-immigrant laws; support secret ballot union elections and support lawsuits or settlements in race discrimination mortgage cases. Support Prosecutors' and Public Defenders' Loan repayment program. Support Tierney (MA) amendment to HR 5326. Support Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants. Support Community Oriented Policing Services Program. Support the Legal Services Corporation.. Support thee Court-Appointed Specal Advocate Program. Oppose "Stand your Ground" laws at the state level; call for a federal repeal of all such statutes. Strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder; opposition to a contempt of Congress citation against him; strongly oppose H. Res. 711. Disapprove of the behavior of House Oversight Committee Chairman Issa's behavior. Support H. Res. 718. Support Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act as reported be the Committee. Support S. 1925. Support Paul Watford's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
2012 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Support the elimination of racial disparities in state, local and federal law enforcement. End racial profiling. Abolish the death penalty; support the establishment of a commission to study problems surrounding the Death Penalty and a moratorium on implementing the death penalty until the study is complete. Completely eliminate Crack Cocaine / Powder cocaine sentencing disparities, and apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively. Support H.R. 2242. Support sentencing reform. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Support continued funding for COPS program. Support full funding for ex-felony offender programs (the Second Chance Act). Support prisoner literacy, education and rehabilitation. Support law enforcement trust & integrity. Support increased enforcement activities by the US DoJ, Civil Rights Division. Support legislation to help youth stay away from gangs . Support a review of prosecutorial decisions, and any racial implications therein . Support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, and oppose any amendments that may result in more juveniles being tried as adults. Support S. 306, a bill to establish a blue ribbon National Criminal Justice Commission. Support the recommended national standards developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Support anti-SLAPP suit legislation. Support Restorative Justice Initiatives. Ensure that fair and impartial judges are nominated to the federal bench and that they are confirmed. Support Anita Earls for a federal judgeship .Support the Legal Services Corp. Opposed to proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support hiring a progressive reformer with a proven record of rehabilitation for the new Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Support applying the new guidelines for Crack cocaine conviction retroactively to those currently incarcerated (testify before the US Sentencing Commission). Support for the elimination of the War on Drugs and other criminal justice policies which have resulted in the overincarceration of Americans, with prison costs skyrocketing and not enough being spent on education. Support saving money through sentencing reform and a reduction of prison costs. Support clemency for Troy Davis, or at least a reduction in his pending death sentence. Support strong election protection in 2012 Presidential election. Oppose overly punitive anti-gang measures as well as mandatory minimums and instead support proposals which would create community based groups to try to prevent gang creation and recruitment. Support re-enfranchisement of ex-felony offenders. Support H.R. 2212. Support eliminating racial discrimination by prosecutors. Support H.R. 1771. Support eliminating employment discrimination. Support the Employment Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 1397 / S. 811. Support Department of Justice Civil Rights' Division activities in Dayton, Ohio, as it relates to admittance to training facilities for police officers and firefighters. Oppose proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support S. 952, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Support HR 3051 to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. Support commuting the death sentence of Troy Davis. Support increased Department of Justice activity into investigating lynchings and other reports of hate crimes in Mississippi and Georgia. Support the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670 / H.R. 3618 Support the Webb amendment to HR 2112 establishing a National Criminal Justice Review Commission. Oppose H.R. 966, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Support Justice Louis Butler, Jr., to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Support a prohibition on potential employers from asking about an applicants criminal background in the initial employment application. Concerns about proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Oppose discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Support HR 1681. Support full funding for programs under the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2012. Support the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department in the case involving the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its entrance exam for men and women who aspired to become police officers or firefighters for the city. Support HR 2189, requiring a report on deaths in custody. Opposed to mandatory minimum sentences in S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. Support funding in FY 2012 for Juvenile Justice programs. Specifically, we support: $75 million for the Title II State Formula Grants Program of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); $65 million for the JJDPA Title V Local Delinquency Prevention Program, with no earmarks; $55 million for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program (JABG), and $100 million for mentoring programs. Oppose The Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (H.R. 1254). Support an eminent domain policy that is transparent and provides for fair ands adequate compensation for those affected by eminent domain. Support the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act (H.R. 3781). Support the re-authorization of and full funding for the Violence Against Women Act. Support S. 1925. Support legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Support H.R. 3051. Work to bring racial and ethnic diversity to the Eastern Federal Court of North Carolina. Support sentencing reform that provides more flexibility to judges and allows prisoners to earn reductions in their sentences. Support H.R. 2343 Oppose the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (H.R. 966 / S. 533). Support the Justice Integrity Act, H.R. 1771. Support legislation to encourage youth to stay away from gangs and become productive members of society. Support the Youth PROMISE Act, H.R. 2721. Support the Department of Homeland Security undertaking a comprehensive publicly-reported audit of the civil rights impact of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening policies on racial and religious minorities. Support H.R. 2189, the "Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2011." Oppose religious profiling by law enforcement. Support the U.S. Department of Justice invoking the Voting Rights Act to delay or forestall the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting or registering to vote. Oppose increasing the budget for the US Bureau or Prisons in fiscal year 2013 and implement cost-saving strategies (both administrative and legislative) instead. Support funding for Second Chance Act programs in FY2013. Support to a thorough examination by US Department of Justice of federal sentencing policy. Support an expanshion of the Bureau of Prisons Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP). Support U.S. Sentencing Commission consideration of a two-level downward adjustment to the drug quantity table and support the Commissions proposal to expand the safety valve. Support an expanded use of Compassionate Release by the US Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011(H.R. 1254). Oppose attempts by Corrections Corporation of America to purchase and privatize state prisons. Oppose legislation which would impose unprecedented burdens on parties in cases involving a wide array of federal protections in areas such as environmental, consumer, health care, and civil rights laws. Oppose H.R. 3041, H.R. 3862, and H.R. 1996. Support S. 1925, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Support the settlement between U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America over Countrywide's discriminatory mortgage lending practices. Support reducing the exorbitant rates for telephone calls to and from prisons. Support Donna Murphy for a Judgeship at the DC Superior Court. Support consistent, reasonable phone rates for incarcerated people. Support the reinstatment of nondiscrimination language into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that would prohibit organizations from engaging in religious discrimination using federal dollars. Support for the development of comprehensive standards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Support an amendment in the US House of Representatives to the Appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security that will ensure that no Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds are used to profile American citizens on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. Support the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with individuals and organizations with expertise on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), to issue and implement regulations that terminate the program in its entirety; remove residual penalties associated with NSEERS for all affected individuals; and discontinue the use of data collected through NSEERS by DHS and other law enforcement agencies. Support an investigation into the activities of the Office of the Pardon Attorney since at least 2001. Oppose H.R. 4970, the bill introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support full funding of the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2013. Oppose inclusion of any new mandatory minimum sentencing provisions in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Support strengthening the DOJ Guidance on racial profiling to address profiling by religion and national origin, to close the loopholes for the border and national security, and to make the guidance enforceable. Oppose policy "riders" on the Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill for FY 13 which would prohibit the US DoJ from supporting legal efforts to oppose photo identification when voting; supporting legal efforts to implement the EEOC criminal background check guidence; support legal efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act; support legal efforts to overturn all or part of state anti-immigrant laws; support secret ballot union elections and support lawsuits or settlements in race discrimination mortgage cases. Support Prosecutors' and Public Defenders' Loan repayment program. Support Tierney (MA) amendment to HR 5326. Support Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants. Support Community Oriented Policing Services Program. Support the Legal Services Corporation.. Support thee Court-Appointed Specal Advocate Program. Oppose "Stand your Ground" laws at the state level; call for a federal repeal of all such statutes. Strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder; opposition to a contempt of Congress citation against him; strongly oppose H. Res. 711. Disapprove of the behavior of House Oversight Committee Chairman Issa's behavior. Support H. Res. 718. Support Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act as reported be the Committee. Support S. 1925. Support Paul Watford's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
2012 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
H.R.1397, S.811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 S. 1925 The Violence Against Women Act H.R.3618, S. 1670 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 H.R. 1519, S. 797 Paycheck Fairness Act District of Columbia House Voting Rights H.R. 1116, S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act S. 3317/H.R. 5978 Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012 H.R. 5799 Voter Empowerment Act of 2012 S. 581 Child Care Protection Act of 2011 S. 2189 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act Agriculture, Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
Client expense: $269,357 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, Vice President of the U.S., White House Office
2012 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation HR 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 2151, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; AZ SB 1070, Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-D039, Controlled Unclassified Information-Issues Lobbied: EO, possible legislation; H Res 646, Expressing the sense of the House that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the `adult entertainment' section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com.-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H. 963, Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; HJRES 106, Victims Rights Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; HR 1116, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; HR 1397, Employment Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; HR 1404, Fair Elections Now Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 1505, National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Border Surveillance; HR 1519, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Equal Rights; HR 166, Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act-Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; HR 1842, Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; HR 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Data retention, privacy; HR 1996, Government Litigation Savings Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 2116, The Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 2136, Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Labor Trafficking; HR 216, Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Laptop searches, due process; HR 2164, Legal Workforce Act-Issues Lobbied: Oppose e-verify, privacy; HR 2168, Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; HR 2212, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; HR 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 282, To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification-Issues Lobbied: privacy; HR 3030, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; HR 3053, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; HR 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; HR 347, Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 3485, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; HR 3523, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, privacy, free speech, surveillance, Cybersecurity; HR 3541, Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 3600, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 3608, Stop TSAs Reach in Policy Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; HR 3674, PRECISE Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; HR 3803, District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 3828, Military Religious Freedom Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; HR 3881, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act-Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings; HR 4010, Disclosure of Information on Spending on Campaigns Leads to Open and Secure Elections Act of 2012 (DISCLOSE)-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 4192, Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; HR 4257, Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; HR 4263, SECURE IT Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; HR 4271, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 4277, A bill to establish the National Full Employment Trust Fund to create employment opportunities for the unemployed.-Issues Lobbied: Employment; HR 4297, Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Religious Discrimination; HR 4310, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF, Religious Liberty, First Amendment, LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate, Immigration, Detention, Privacy, Military Abortion, Reproductive Rights; HR 4348, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, Privacy, Freedom to Travel; HR 4388, Right to Habeas Corpus Act-Issues Lobbied: Detention; HR 483, Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 495, Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; HR 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Religious Discrimination, LGBT, Discrimination, Womens Rights, Immigration, First Amendment, Criminal Justice; HR 5325, Fiscal 2013 Energy-Water Appropriations; HR 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform, Medical Marijuana, National Security, Detention, Religious , Racial Profiling, Human Rights, First Amendment, Immigration, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 5647, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Pregnancy discrimination, Equal Rights; HR 5684, Password Protection Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: privacy; HR 5743, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013-Issues Lobbied: National Seucrity; HR 5799, Voter Empowerment Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice, First Amendment; HR 5854, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations for FY2013-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 5855, Fiscal 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention, Privacy, VIPR Squads, SPOT Program, Drone, Religious and Racial Profling, Human Rights, Homeland Security, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, Detention, First Amendment, Abortion; HR 5949, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; HR 5973, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 5978, Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Equal Rights, Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; Racial Justice; HR 6019, Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 6020, Financial Services Appropriations Bill, FY 2013-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation / Vouchers; HR 611, BEST PRACTICES Act-Issues Lobbied: Online privacy; HR 654, Do Not Track Me Online Act-Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy; HR 658, FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security; HR 693, E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 800, Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 83, Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools, Free Speech, School-to-Prison Pipeline; HR 96, Internet Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; HR 98, Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 998, Student Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; HRes 106, Victims Rights Constitutional Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Victims Rights Constitutional Amendment; HRes 651, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the illicit ethnic and religious profiling and surveillance of Muslim American communities by the New York Police Department-Issues Lobbied: ; S 1145, Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Labor Trafficking; S 1212, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S 1301, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; S 1409, Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Criminal Justice; S 1605, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S 1670, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA)-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices, Religious and Racial Profiling, Privacy, First Amendment; S 1728, Stolen Valor Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 1770, Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; S 1813, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, Privacy, Freedom to Travel; S 1910, Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S 1925, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Religious Discrimination, Woment's Rights, First Amendment, LGBT Discrimination, Immigrant's Rights, Mandatory Minimums. SAVE Act Provision; S 1994, Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 2017, Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S 2020, Restraint and Seclusion/ The Keeping All Students Safe Act-Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S 2102, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 2105, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment, surveillance; S 2151, SECURE IT-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy, cybersecurity; S 2175, Due Process and Military Detetention Amendments Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; S 2197, Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Brady rule reform (preventing prosecutorial misconduct); S 2219, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 223, FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security; S 2234, End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; S 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform, Medical Marijuana, National Security, Civil Rights, First Amendment, Detention; S 306, National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S 3074, Password Protection Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S 3078, WWII Memorial Prayer Act-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation; S 3187, Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; S 3199, Jobs Originated through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Right to Travel; S 3216, Fiscal 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention; S 322, The Servicemembers Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S 3220, Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied: Equal rights; S 3254, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Reproductive Rights, LGBT Discrimination, Military Abortion, Detention; S 3257, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction.-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 3276, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 3301, Financial Services Appropriations Bill, FY 2013-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation / Vouchers; S 3314, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013-Issues Lobbied: National Security; S 3317, The Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act (EEORA)- Legislative response to Wal-Mart v. Dukes-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Racial Justice, Equal Rights; S 3342, SECURE IT-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; S 3369, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 3372, Military Service Integrity Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 3804, Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment; S 409, Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; S 505, Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S 555, Student Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S 598, Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S 605, Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; S 74, Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; S 750, Fair Elections Now Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 797, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S 811, Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Religious Discrimination, LGBT Discrimination; S 839, Combating Designer Drugs Act of 2011 The End Racial Profiling Act-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; S 952, Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; SJRES 29, Campaign Finance Constitutional Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Congressional Issues Without Bills 287(g) program-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Anti-SLAPP Legislation-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates-Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform-Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; Contractor Trafficking-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Cuban Adjustment Act-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Cybersecurity-Issues Lobbied: National Security; Deferred action for DREAMers-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT-Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; DOJ Pardons Office-Issues Lobbied: DOJ Oversight; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance-Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance; Domestic Drones-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform-Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; DOJ Oversight-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; FBI Oversight-Issues Lobbied: National Secuirty, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; FBI Practices-Issues Lobbied: FBI Oversight, Racial and Religious Profiling; Federal Over-criminalization-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, RIN 0938AR42-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice, Collateral Consequences; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Human Rights Crisis In Puerto Rico-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Racial Justice; Intelligence Authorization Leaks-Issues Lobbied: National Security; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Juvenile Life without Parole-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Racial Justice; LGBT Executive Order-Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; License Plate Readers-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Location tracking-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Over-Classification Reduction-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; Patriot Act-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; First Amendment; Plyler v Doe guidance- education for undocumented students-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; PREA rule covering immigration detainees-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Prosecutorial discretion, ICE enforcement-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Puerto Rico Police Abuse Report-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Racial Profiling-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling; Radicalization of American Muslims-Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; LGBT Rights; Religious Profiling-Issues Lobbied: Religious Profiling; S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ state and local enforcement issues-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Secure Communities-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Securitization-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Solitary Confinement Hearing-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Synthetic Drug Control Act Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; Tax Extenders Bill-Issues Lobbied: ; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Torture-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of datamining technologies by the government-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; VAWA reauthorization-Issues Lobbied: Women's Rights, LGBT Discrimination, First Amendment, Criminal Justice; Victims Rights Constitutional Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Voter Empowerment-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; VRA Enforcement- Voter ID/ Voter Suppression laws-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice Agencies Departement of State-Issues Lobbied: CERD Implementation; Department of Commerce-Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reformm, Online Piracy, Online Privacy Process, Trafficking, Cybersecurity information sharing regulations; Department of Defense-Issues Lobbied: FOIA Responses, Religious Profiling; Department of Education-Issues Lobbied: FERPA Privacy Regulations, Plyler v. Doe, School Diversity; Department of Education Office of Civil Rights-Issues Lobbied: Plyler v Doe guidance- education for undocumented students; Department of Health and Human Services-Issues Lobbied: Electronic medical records, Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, RIN 0938AR42, Abstinence-Only Sex Education, ACA Regulations on Transgender Individuals, Blood Ban Study; Department of Homeland Security-Issues Lobbied: Government Watch Lists, use of dataminig technologies by the government, S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ state and local enforcement issues, Deferred action for DREAMers, Prosecutorial discretion, ICE enforcement, Cybersecurity information sharing regulations, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT, Suspicious Activity Reports, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, REAL ID, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Detention, NSEERS, PREA, Maricopa County Immigration Enforcement, Deferred Action Immigration Policy; Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties-Issues Lobbied: Secure Communities, 287(g) program; Department of Homeland Security Office of General Counsel-Issues Lobbied: PREA rule covering immigration detainees; Department of Housing and Urban Development-Issues Lobbied: Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments, RIN 2506-AC29; Department of Justice-Issues Lobbied: End Racial Profiling Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, VRA Enforcement- Voter ID/ Voter Suppression laws, CERD Implementation, Indigent Defense Reform, Federal Over-Criminalization, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Juvenile Life Without Parole, June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, PREA rule covering immigration detainees, Patriot Act, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, FISA Amendment Act reauthorization, Jessica Lenahan v. US, FBI Profiling, Immigration, Right to Record, Plyler v. Doe, Voting Rights, Racial Profiling, Gender-Biased Policing, Domestic Violence Guidance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Opinions; Department of Justice Civil Rights Division-Issues Lobbied: Plyler v Doe guidance- education for undocumented students; Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General-Issues Lobbied: Religious Profiling; Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs-Issues Lobbied: The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Department of Labor-Issues Lobbied: Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Trafficking, FMLA for Military; Department of State-Issues Lobbied: Trafficking; Department of Veterans Affairs-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Parenting, Discrimination; Deptartment of Energy-Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction; Director of National Intelligence-Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Opinions; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-Issues Lobbied: Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records, Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records, Comments on EEOC strategic planning, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, LGBT, HIV/AIDS, Discrimination, Employment Background Checks; Executive Office of the President-Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2011, PRECISE Act, Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012, SECURE IT Act Cybersecurity Act of 2012, Paycheck Fairness Act, Plyler v. Doe, CBP Use of Force, AZ SB 1070; Federal Aviation Administraion-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones, FAA Air Transporation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, domsetic drones; Federal Bureau of Investigation-Issues Lobbied: Patriot Act, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Radicalization of American Muslims; Federal Communications Commission-Issues Lobbied: Framework of Broadband Access, Net Neutrality, Commission Seeks Comment on Certain Wireless Service Interruptions, Media Ownership, Docket No. 96-128, Petitioner Martha Wright et al., Framework of Broadband Access, Wireless Service Interruptions, Prison Phone Rightsw; Federal Trade Commission-Issues Lobbied: COPPA; Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Issues Lobbied: Deferred action for DREAMers; National Archives and Records Admininstration-Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-D039; National Economic Counsel-Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; National Security Agency-Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity information sharing regulations, E.O. 12958; National Security Counsel-Issues Lobbied: Considered Executive Order on Human Rights; Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs-Issues Lobbied: Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments, RIN 2506-AC29; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention-Issues Lobbied: The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Office of Management and Budget-Issues Lobbied: REAL ID, Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments, RIN 2506-AC29, Over-Classification Reduction; Office of Personnel Management-Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction; Peace Corps-Issues Lobbied: Peace Corps Manuel, Women's Rights; Social Security Administration-Issues Lobbied: Discrimination Against Transgender People; U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Relationships, Transgender ID; United States Commission on Civil Rights-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling; Veterans Affairs-Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; White House-Issues Lobbied: White House Privacy Report, Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Admin. Policies to reduce prison pop, S.B. 1070 SCOTUS decision/ state and local enforcement issues, Deferred action for DREAMers, VAWA reauthorization, Racial profiling, Plyler v Doe guidance- education for undocumented students, Cybersecurity information sharing regulations, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, E.O. 12958, Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, RIN 0938AR42, Trafficking, LGBT Discrimination; White House Domestic Policy Counsel-Issues Lobbied: Affirmative Action in Education, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act
2012 · second_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
H.R. 267, S. 797, H.R. 1519, H.R. 5799, H.R. 1796, H.R. 3978, S. 3220, S. 1994, District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, Paycheck Fairness Ace, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Reuniting Familes Act, Equal Access to Support Youth Voting (EASY Voting) Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, Voting Rights, Student Non Discrimination Act, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 (S. 1670/H.R. 3618).
Client expense: $2,480,097 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, White House Office
2012 · second_quarter · Government Issues
Second Chance Act S 1231 Democracy Restoration Act HR 2212, S 2017 End Racial Profiling Act S 1670, HR 3618 CJS Appropriations HR 5326 Amendment to bar DOJ enforcement of VRA Voter Empowerment Act HR 5799 National Criminal Justice Commission Act S306 Fiscal 2013 Transportation-HUD HR 5972 proposed amendments to Fair Housing Act allowing use of criminal background checks to deny housing and invalidating disparate impact regulations proposed by HUD Overclassification of government materials
Client expense: $14,936 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), SENATE
2012 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R.74, Private Prison Information Act of 2011 H.R.82, Drug Court Reauthorization Act. H.R.224, Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act. H.R. 313, Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 S.250, Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.306, National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011. S.401, Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act of 2011. H.R.2316, Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011. H.R.2449, Fresh Start Act of 2011 S.132, Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011. S.645/H.R.1360, Child Protection Improvements Act of 2011. S.1231, the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.1301, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011. H.R. 2870, the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2011 Draft legislation prohibiting all federal agencies from pressuring companies and other organizations to waive their attorney-client privilege, work product, or employee legal protections in return for cooperation credit during investigations and other civil and criminal enforcement matters Proposed changes to Justice Department internal policy involving waiver of attorney-client privilege, work product, and employee legal protections as conditions for receiving cooperation credit during investigations (set forth in August 2008 corporate charging guidelines amendment to U.S. Attorneys Manual [Filip Memorandum]) Proposed Presidential executive order applying a modified version of the Justice Departments August 2008 corporate charging guidelines provisions dealing with waiver of attorney-client privilege, work product, and employee legal protections to all federal agencies Proposed changes to Department of Housing and Urban Development policy involving waiver of attorney-client privilege and work product protections (including the written policy set forth in the HUDs February 3, 2006 formal Notice to public housing authorities [PHAs] and permanently incorporated into HUD guidance at Appendix 6 to HUD Handbook 1530.1 REV-5, Litigation dated May 2004 and Section 7.4G of HUD Handbook 7460.8 REV-2, Procurement Handbook for Public Housing Agencies dated March 2007, and the informal policy of requesting that such public housing authorities waive these protections during audits and investigations) Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Proposed Rule on Confidential Treatment of Privileged Information, Docket No. CFPB-2012-0010; RIN 3170-AA20, 77 Fed. Reg. 15286 (March 15, 2012) and Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 39617 (July 5, 2012) H.R. 4014, S. 2099, legislation clarifying that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can receive privileged information from supervised entities and share the information with other federal agencies without waiving the attorney-client privilege as to third parties H.R.1823, Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act of 2011 H.R.1254, Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 H.R.1771, Justice Integrity Act H.R.1793, Clean Up Government Act of 2011 H.R.1913, Bryne/JAG Program Accountability Act H.R.2212/S.2017, Democracy Restoration Act H.R.2242, Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2011 H.R.2243, Literacy, Education and Rehabilitation Act H.R.2244, Prisoner Incentive Act of 2011 H.R.2303, Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2011 S. 1670, H.R.3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S.1731, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2011 S. 605, the Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 S. 1927, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 S. 2195, the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012 Advocated adoption of ABA Standards in regards to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission to Eliminate Prison Rape. Advocated policy in regards to oversight of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to policies that may reduce barriers to employment of persons with criminal records
2012 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
COPS enhancement authorization bill (S. 207); Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act (H.R. 1823); State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act (H.R. 1789); The National Blue Alert Act (S. 657 and H.R. 365); Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (S. 1925); National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 822 and S. 2188); Local Courthouse Safety Act (S. 2076); Eliminate Racial Profiling Act (S. 1670 and H.R. 3618)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE
2012 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 228, the Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act, would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; H.R. 324, legislation which would grant statutory arrest authority to law enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Department of Defense; H.R. 365/S. 657, the "National Blue Alert," legislation creating an alert system for law enforcement officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty; H.R. 420/S. 798, the Veterans Heritage Firearms Act, would allow individuals, veterans, law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies to register firearms they possess which were prohibited by the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968; H.R. 495/H.R. 963/S. 505, the See Something, Say Something Act, would expand the current immunity from liability to cover all persons who report suspicious activity to authorities, not just suspicious activity which occurs on Federal property or transportation systems; H.R. 498, the "State and Local Law Enforcement Hatch Act Reform Act," which would amend the Hatch Act to allow local and State law enforcement officers to be candidates for the office of Sheriff and permit Sheriffs to engage in political activity; H.R. 815, the Justice for Public Servants Act, would expand the death penalty by adding the murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, Member of Congress or Congressional employee as aggravating factors in death penalty cases; H.R. 1416, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; H.R. 1505/H.R. 2578, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which would give the U.S. Border Patrol the authority to fully patrol Federally own lands; H.R. 4310/S. 3254, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013;"; H.R. 1558/S. 838, the Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act, which would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from banning traditional ammunition because of its lead content; H.R. 1690, the Modernizing of Documentation and Elimination of Redundant Identification and (MODERN) Security Credentials Act, which would erode the security of our nations highways by eliminating many of the requirements on those who transport hazardous waste; H.R. 1789, the State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability and Due Process Act,which would protect the due process rights of officers during internal investigations; H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act, which would improve the ability of law enforcement to combat trafficking in child pornography; H.R. 2168/S. 1212, the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, which would significantly increase the requirements that must be met by law enforcemnt before thy could request geolocation information on potential vicims or suspects; H.R. 2492/S. 1947, the "Animal Fight Spectator Prohibition Act," which would make it a crime to attend or bring a minor to any event or venture at which animals are forced to fight; H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; H.R. 4223/S. 1002, the "Strengthening and Focusing Enforcement to Deter Organized Stealing and Enhance Safety (SAFE DOSES) Act," which would increase the penalties for the theft and resale of medical products; H.R. 3618/S. 1670, the End Racial Profiling Act, which would define racial profiling as any consideration of race, national origin or ethnic origin to initiate a traffic stop or vehicle search absent an eyewitness description and requires the collection of race and other data by State and local law enforcement during routine investigatory activities; H.R. 6063, the Child Protection Act, enhances the ability of law enforcement to combat child pornography by increasing the penalties of possessing child pornography and reauthorizing the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces; S. 306, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act," which would create a National Commission to examine the U.S. criminal justice systems at the State and Federal level; S. 513, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, would increase penalties on those who tailor-market illegal drugs to entice children to purchase them; S. 755, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; S. 890, the Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act, would redirect money in the Working Capital fund toward additional fraud enforcement efforts and give the US Secret Service the permanent authority to conduct undercover operations; S. 968 , the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP) Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; S. 1483, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, would help law enforcement combat the misuse of U.S. corporations by requiring States to obtain beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies formed under State law; S. 1925, the "Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act," specifically on language to expand the U Visa program; S. 3187, the "Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act," specifically on an amenment to reschedule the drug hydrocodone; and Legislation which would normalize relations with Cuba until that nation ceases to be a safe harbor for cop-killers and other fugitives.
2012 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 228, the Traffic Stops Along the Border Statistics Study Act, would require the U.S. Attorney General to collect race and other data on traffic stops made by State and local law enforcement officers; and H.R. 324, legislation which would grant statutory arrest authority to law enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Department of Defense; H.R. 365/S. 657, the "National Blue Alert," legislation creating an alert system for law enforcement officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty; H.R. 420/S. 798, the Veterans Heritage Firearms Act, would allow individuals, veterans, law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies to register firearms they possess which were prohibited by the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968; H.R. 495/H.R. 963/S. 505, the See Something, Say Something Act, would expand the current immunity from liability to cover all persons who report suspicious activity to authorities, not just suspicious activity which occurs on Federal property or transportation systems; H.R. 498, the "State and Local Law Enforcement Hatch Act Reform Act," which would amend the Hatch Act to allow local and State law enforcement officers to be candidates for the office of Sheriff and permit Sheriffs to engage in political activity; H.R. 815, the Justice for Public Servants Act, would expand the death penalty by adding the murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, Member of Congress or Congressional employee as aggravating factors in death penalty cases; H.R. 1416, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; H.R. 1540/S. 1867, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012," which contained a provision to grant statutory arrest authority to law enforcement officers employed by the U.S. Department of Defense; H.R. 1558/S. 838, the Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act, which would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from banning traditional ammunition because of its lead content; H.R. 1789, the State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability and Due Process Act,which would protect the due process rights of officers during internal investigations; H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act, which would improve the ability of law enforcement to combat trafficking in child pornography; H.R. 2492/S. 1947, the "Animal Fight Spectator Prohibition Act," which would make it a crime to attend or bring a minor to any event or venture at which animals are forced to fight; H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; H.R. 3618/S. 1670, the End Racial Profiling Act, which would define racial profiling as any consideration of race, national origin or ethnic origin to initiate a traffic stop or vehicle search absent an eyewitness description and requires the collection of race and other data by State and local law enforcement during routine investigatory activities; S. 306, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act," which would create a National Commission to examine the U.S. criminal justice systems at the State and Federal level; S. 513, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, would increase penalties on those who tailor-market illegal drugs to entice children to purchase them; S. 755, the Crime Victim Restitution and Court Fee Intercept Act, would provide federal authorization for the U.S. Department of Treasury to intercept tax refunds to pay overdue court-ordered financial obligations, including court fines, fees and restitution; S. 890, the Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act, would redirect money in the Working Capital fund toward additional fraud enforcement efforts and give the US Secret Service the permanent authority to conduct undercover operations; S. 968 , the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP) Act, which would strengthen the ability of the United States to take action against foreign rogue websites that traffic in counterfeit and pirated products; S. 1483, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act,would help law enforcement combat the misuse of U.S. corporations by requiring States to obtain beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies formed under State law; and Legislation which would normalize relations with Cuba until that nation ceases to be a safe harbor for cop-killers and other fugitives.
2012 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Support the elimination of racial disparities in state, local and federal law enforcement. End racial profiling. Abolish the death penalty; support the establishment of a commission to study problems surrounding the Death Penalty and a moratorium on implementing the death penalty until the study is complete. Completely eliminate Crack Cocaine / Powder cocaine sentencing disparities, and apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively. Support H.R. 2242. Support sentencing reform. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Support continued funding for COPS program. Support full funding for ex-felony offender programs (the Second Chance Act). Support prisoner literacy, education and rehabilitation. Support law enforcement trust & integrity. Support increased enforcement activities by the US DoJ, Civil Rights Division. Support legislation to help youth stay away from gangs . Support a review of prosecutorial decisions, and any racial implications therein . Support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, and oppose any amendments that may result in more juveniles being tried as adults. Support S. 306, a bill to establish a blue ribbon National Criminal Justice Commission. Support the recommended national standards developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Support anti-SLAPP suit legislation. Support Restorative Justice Initiatives. Ensure that fair and impartial judges are nominated to the federal bench and that they are confirmed. Support Anita Earls for a federal judgeship .Support the Legal Services Corp. Opposed to proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support hiring a progressive reformer with a proven record of rehabilitation for the new Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Support applying the new guidelines for Crack cocaine conviction retroactively to those currently incarcerated (testify before the US Sentencing Commission). Support for the elimination of the War on Drugs and other criminal justice policies which have resulted in the overincarceration of Americans, with prison costs skyrocketing and not enough being spent on education. Support saving money through sentencing reform and a reduction of prison costs. Support clemency for Troy Davis, or at least a reduction in his pending death sentence. Support strong election protection in 2012 Presidential election. Oppose overly punitive anti-gang measures as well as mandatory minimums and instead support proposals which would create community based groups to try to prevent gang creation and recruitment. Support re-enfranchisement of ex-felony offenders. Support H.R. 2212. Support eliminating racial discrimination by prosecutors. Support H.R. 1771. Support eliminating employment discrimination. Support the Employment Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 1397 / S. 811. Support Department of Justice Civil Rights' Division activities in Dayton, Ohio, as it relates to admittance to training facilities for police officers and firefighters. Oppose proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Support S. 952, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Support HR 3051 to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. Support commuting the death sentence of Troy Davis. Support increased Department of Justice activity into investigating lynchings and other reports of hate crimes in Mississippi and Georgia. Support the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670 / H.R. 3618 Support the Webb amendment to HR 2112 establishing a National Criminal Justice Review Commission. Oppose H.R. 966, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Support Justice Louis Butler, Jr., to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Support a prohibition on potential employers from asking about an applicants criminal background in the initial employment application. Concerns about proposed reorganization of funding for federal juvenile justice grant programs. Oppose discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved. Support HR 1681. Support full funding for programs under the Second Chance Act in fiscal year 2012. Support the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department in the case involving the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its entrance exam for men and women who aspired to become police officers or firefighters for the city. Support HR 2189, requiring a report on deaths in custody. Opposed to mandatory minimum sentences in S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. Support funding in FY 2012 for Juvenile Justice programs. Specifically, we support: $75 million for the Title II State Formula Grants Program of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); $65 million for the JJDPA Title V Local Delinquency Prevention Program, with no earmarks; $55 million for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program (JABG), and $100 million for mentoring programs. Oppose The Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (H.R. 1254). Support an eminent domain policy that is transparent and provides for fair ands adequate compensation for those affected by eminent domain. Support the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act (H.R. 3781). Support the re-authorization of and full funding for the Violence Against Women Act. Support S. 1925. Support legislation to abolish the federal death penalty. Support H.R. 3051. Work to bring racial and ethnic diversity to the Eastern Federal Court of North Carolina. Support sentencing reform that provides more flexibility to judges and allows prisoners to earn reductions in their sentences. Support H.R. 2343 Oppose the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (H.R. 966 / S. 533). Support the Justice Integrity Act, H.R. 1771. Support legislation to encourage youth to stay away from gangs and become productive members of society. Support the Youth PROMISE Act, H.R. 2721. Support the Department of Homeland Security undertaking a comprehensive publicly-reported audit of the civil rights impact of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening policies on racial and religious minorities. Support H.R. 2189, the "Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2011." Oppose religious profiling by law enforcement. Support the U.S. Department of Justice invoking the Voting Rights Act to delay or forestall the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting or registering to vote. Oppose increasing the budget for the US Bureau or Prisons in fiscal year 2013 and implement cost-saving strategies (both administrative and legislative) instead. Support funding for Second Chance Act programs in FY2013. Support to a thorough examination by US Department of Justice of federal sentencing policy. Support an expanshion of the Bureau of Prisons Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP). Support U.S. Sentencing Commission consideration of a two-level downward adjustment to the drug quantity table and support the Commissions proposal to expand the safety valve. Support an expanded use of Compassionate Release by the US Bureau of Prisons. Oppose Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011(H.R. 1254). Oppose attempts by Corrections Corporation of America to purchase and privatize state prisons. Oppose legislation which would impose unprecedented burdens on parties in cases involving a wide array of federal protections in areas such as environmental, consumer, health care, and civil rights laws. Oppose H.R. 3041, H.R. 3862, and H.R. 1996. Support S. 1925, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Support the settlement between U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America over Countrywide's discriminatory mortgage lending practices. Support reducing the exorbitant rates for telephone calls to and from prisons.
2012 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
H.R.1397, S.811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 S. 1925 The Violence Against Women Act H.R.3618, S. 1670 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 H.R. 1519, S. 797 Paycheck Fairness Act District of Columbia House Voting Rights H.R. 1116, S. 598, Respect for Marriage Act H.R. 1, Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act House Voting Rights Act Opportunity Restoration Act of 2011
Client expense: $268,293 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, Vice President of the U.S., White House Office
2012 · first_quarter · Government Issues
DISCLOSE Act 2012 S2219 Democracy Restoration Act of 2011 HR 2212,S2017 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S 1670, HR 3618 Second Chance Act 2012 Commerce Science Justice Appropriations National Defense Authorization Act HR 1540 CIA Mandatory declassification review program Voter registration modernization and other voting issues National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 S 306 Department of Justice racial profiling guidelines Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 S 605, HR 1254
Client expense: $12,166 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
2012 · first_quarter · Government Issues
DISCLOSE 2012S 2219 Democracy Restoration Act of 2011HR 2212, S 2017 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011S 1670, HR 3618 Second Chance Act 2012 Commerce Science Justice Appropriations National Defense Authorization Act HR 1540 CIA Mandatory declassification review program Voter registration modernization National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 S 306 Omnibus voting bill Department of Justice Racial Profiling Guidelines Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 S605, HR 1254
Client expense: $12,166 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), SENATE
2012 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation HR 3989 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, Student Success Act-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, School Discipline; EO 12958 -Issues Lobbied: Improving classification policy; EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-D039 Controlled Unclassified Information-Issues Lobbied: EO, possible legislation; HJ Res 37 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the FCC with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.-Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; HJ Res 90 OCCUPIED Amendment-Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform/Free Speech; HR 1116 Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; HR 1179 Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights; HR 1254 Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Synthetic Drugs; HR 1397 Employment Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; HR 1519 Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights,; HR 166 Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act-Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; HR 1932 Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Prolonged and indefinite detention; HR 1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Data retention, privacy; HR 1996 Government Litigation Savings Act-Issues Lobbied: ; HR 2070 World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; HR 2085 MARCH for Military Women Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 216 Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Laptop searches, due process; HR 2164 Legal Workforce Act-Issues Lobbied: Oppose e-verify, privacy; HR 2168 Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; HR 220 Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National ID, privacy; HR 2212 Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; HR 2242 Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 2299 Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 2316 The Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 2471 Video Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 2721 The Youth PROMISE Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 280 Secure the Capitol Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 282 To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification-Issues Lobbied: privacy; HR 2830 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights; HR 290 War Memorial Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; HR 3027 Ending Corporal Punishing in Schools Act-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline; HR 3030 Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; HR 3041 Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied: Access to Courts; HR 3053 REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; HR 312 Securing the Homeland Through Agency Reporting Enhancement Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 3261 Stop Online Piracy Act-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment, Privacy; HR 347 Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice, Free Speech; HR 3485 Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; HR 3523 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; HR 3541 Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 3589 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights; HR 3608 Stop TSAs Reach in Policy Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 3618 End Racial Profiling Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices , Prohibit Racial Profiling in Federal Law Enforcement; HR 3630 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing of Unemployment Recipients; HR 3668 The Counterfeit Drug Penalty Enhancement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Penalties; HR 3674 PRECISE Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; HR 3681 End Racial Profiling Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling; HR 3808 Scott Gardner Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; HR 3828 Military Religious Freedom Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Using Religion to Discriminate; HR 3862 Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Access to Courts; HR 3990 Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Education; HR 4010 The DISLOSE Act-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; HR 4192 Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; HR 4223 The SAFE DOSES Act-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Penalties; HR 4257 Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; HR 4259 End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; HR 4263 SECURE IT Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; HR 4271 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech; HR 4310 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; HR 483 Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 495 Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; HR 611 BEST PRACTICES Act-Issues Lobbied: Online privacy; HR 654 Do Not Track Me Online Act-Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy; HR 658 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security; HR 693 E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 800 Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; HR 83 Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools, Free Speech, School-to-Prison Pipeline; HR 96 Internet Freedom Act-Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment; HR 963 Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; HR 98 Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 998 Student Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S 1061 Government Litigation Savings Act-Issues Lobbied: ; S 1171 Tax Parity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; S 1212 Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S 1214 MARCH for Military Women Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S 1301 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; S 1409 Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Criminal Justice; S 1467 Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights; S 1605 Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S 1670 End Racial Profiling Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices, First Amendment, Privacy; S 169 A bill to prohibit appropriated funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.-Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy; S 1763 SAVE Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Domestic Violence on Tribal Lands; S 1770 Every Child Deserves a Family Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT Adoption, Discrimination; S 1813 MAP-21-Issues Lobbied: Access to contraception, Religious Liberties, Racial Profiling; S 1813 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), Blunt Amendment (No. 1520)-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation/ Reproductive Rights, Racial Profiling; S 1867 National Defense Authorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Detention; S 1871 STOCK Act-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; S 1892 Housing Rights for Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence Act-Issues Lobbied: ; S 1910 Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S 1925 Violence Against Women Reauthorization act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Immigration, Criminal Justice, Free Speech, LGBT, Discrimination, SAVE Act provisions and mandatory minimum; S 2003 Due Process Guarantee Act-Issues Lobbied: National Security; S 2017 Democracy Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; S 2102 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 2151 SECURE IT-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S 2175 Due Process and Military Detention Amendments Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: National Security/Detention/AUMF; S 2197 Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; S 2219 Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Elections Act-Issues Lobbied: Anonymous Speech; S 223 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security; S 2234 End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Labor Trafficking; S 306 National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S 3804 Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment; S 409 Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; S 505 Suspicious Activity Reports-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; S 555 Student Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools; S 598 Respect for Marriage Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships; S 605 Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; S 74 Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech; S 797 Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights,; S 811 Employment Non-Discrimination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; S 839 Combating Designer Drug Acts of 2011-Issues Lobbied: ; S 968 PROTECT IP-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; SJ Res 6 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.-Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech Congressional Issues without Bills Affordable Housing and Self-Sufficiency Improvement Act of 2011-Issues Lobbied: Collateral consequences for sex offenders; Appropriations-Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Arizona SB 1070-Issues Lobbied: State and local enforcement issues; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates-Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Civil Rights Data Collection-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, Disability, School Discipline; Comments on Unlawful Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers and Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform-Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; Conscience Clauses-Issues Lobbied: Access to contraception, Religious Liberties; Considered Executive Order on Human Rights-Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Contraception Coverage-Issues Lobbied: Access to Contraception; Cybersecurity-Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity; Department of Homeland Security FY 2013 Budget-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT-Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DISCLOSE Act-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; DOD Intelligence Oversight-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance- Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance; Draft Bill on Womens Rights-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Economic Development Administration Regulatory Revision, RIN 0610-XA08-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform-Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Electronic medical records-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Elementary and Secondary Education Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; FBI Oversight-Issues Lobbied: National Secuirty, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal Over-criminalization-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; FERPA Privacy Regulations-Issues Lobbied: Student privacy; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, privacy; Framework of Broadband Access, Net Neutrality-Issues Lobbied: ; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Gene Patents-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; Government Watch Lists-Issues Lobbied: Due process, privacy; Habeas Corpus Review Procedures in Capital Cases-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Capital Punishment; HHS Rule on insurance coverage for contraception-Issues Lobbied: Religious Freedom, Reproductive Rights; Home Health Care Workers Rules-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments, RIN 2506-AC29-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation; Immigration Detention Standards-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Indigent Defense Reform-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Juvenile Life without Parole-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Racial Justice,; Legislative response to Wal-Mart v. Dukes-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Racial Justice; Lending Discrimination Practices and Foreclosure Abuses-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; LGBT Tax Discrimination-Issues Lobbied: LGBT; License Plate Readers-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Location tracking-Issues Lobbied: ; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/Implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act/ Sentencing Reform-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; National Defense Authorization Act FY13-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Obama Budget Proposal-Issues Lobbied: ; Omnibus Voting Rights Bill (including DRA, Caging, Deceptive Practices)-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice, Free Speech; Patriot Act-Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment; Prison Abuse Remedies Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights; Prison Rape Elimination Act Commission Standards-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, LGBT Rights, Immigration; Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Nominations-Issues Lobbied: ; Proposed DOL rule on home care workers-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Labor, Racial Justice, Womens Rights; Proposed OFCCP rule on compensation data tool-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Labor, Federal Contracting; Prosecutorial Discretion-Issues Lobbied: ICE Enforcement; PETITION Act-Issues Lobbied: 1st Amendment; Public Housing and Sex Offenders-Issues Lobbied: ; Racial Profiling-Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling; Radicalization of American Muslims-Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; REAL ID-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Regulations on insurance coverage of contraception-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; School Diversity Guidance Interpreting PICS (Parents Involved in Community Schools)-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, School Diversity; School vouchers-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Secure Communities-Issues Lobbied: ; Social website monitoring-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Supportive School Discipline Initiative-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, School Discipline; The Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; The Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Capital Punishment; The Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act-Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; U.S. Customs and Border Protection FY 2013 Budget-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of datamining technologies by the government-Issues Lobbied: Privacy; VAWA Reauthorization-Issues Lobbied: Immigration; VRA Enforcement- Voter ID/ Voter Suppression laws-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice Agencies Bureau of Labor and Statistics-Issues Lobbied: Data Collection; Bureau of Prisons-Issues Lobbied: Over incarceration, Reduce Bureau of Prisons Population, Criminal Justice; Department of Commerce-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation, Economic Development Administration Regulatory Revision, RIN 0610-XA08, HR 3523, HR 3674, HR 4527, S 2105, S 2102, S 2151, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location TrackingCybersecurity Legislation; Department of Defense-Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Free Speech, Internet Censorship, Trafficking; Department of Education-Issues Lobbied: Education, Racial Justice, School Diversity Guidance Interpreting PICS (Parents Involved in Community Schools), Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, Student Success Act, Supportive School Discipline Initiative, FERPA Privacy Regulations, LGBT, Youth and Schools, DoE Office of Civil Rights: Civil Rights Data Collection, Education, Racial Justice, Disability, School Discipline, Plyler v. Doe Guidance-education for undocumented students; Department of Energy-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; Department of Health and Human Services-Issues Lobbied: Student Health Plans and Contraception, Electronic medical records, DHHS Rule on insurance coverage for contraception, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Rights; Department of Homeland Security-Issues Lobbied: Use of data mining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, 287(g) program, PREA Rule covering immigration detainees, EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-DO39, Controlled Unclassified Information, HR 3523, HR 3674, HR 4527, S 2105, S 2102, S 2151, Cybersecurity Legislation, Suspicious Activity Reports, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Intelligence collection, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy, REAL ID, DHS Office of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights: Secure Communities, Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2011 (HR 1932); Department of Housing and Urban Development-Issues Lobbied: Church-State Separation, Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments, RIN 2506-AC29; Department of Justice-Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women, Guidance on Race, Reduce Bureau of Prisons Population, Racial Profiling, LACHR-Jessica Gonzales Implementation, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking, Prison Abuse Remedies Act (and reform of the PLRA), Prisoners' Rights, Indigent Defense Reform, Federal Over-Criminalization, End Racial Profiling Act, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, The Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act, The Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act, The Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act, Prison Rape Elimination Act Commission Standards, Habeas Corpus Review Procedures in Capital Cases, Juvenile Life Without Parole, June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Education, Racial Justice, School Diversity Guidance Interpreting PICS (Parents Involved in Community Schools), ESEA Reauthorization, Student Success Act, Supportive School Discipline Initiative, Voting Rights, VRA Enforcement- Voter ID/ Voter Suppression laws, Bureau of Prison Policies, HR 3523, HR 3674, HR 4527, S 2105, S 2102, S 2151, Cybersecurity Legislation, Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act, Secure Communities, PREA Rule covering immigration detainees, VAWA Reauthorization, National Security, Privacy, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, National Security, Civil Liberties, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide Updates, DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance, Patriot Act, LGBT, Discrimination, DOJ Office of Justice Programs: The Fair Sentencing Act of 2011 (HR 2316), Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act, DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Department of Labor-Issues Lobbied: Home Health Care Worker Discrimination, Trafficking, Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act, LGBT, Discrimination, DOL Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs: Disability Non-Discrimination, Proposed OFCCP rule on compensation data tool, Employment Discrimination, Labor, Federal Contracting, DOL Wage and Hour Division: Employment Discrimination, Labor, Racial Justice, Womens Rights, Proposed DOL rule on home care workers; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-Issues Lobbied: Pregnancy Workplace Rules, Fairness in Employment Background Checks Act, Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Comments on Unlawful Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers and Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities; Executive Office of the President-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, HIV/AIDS Discrimination, EU Privacy Standards, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Immigration, Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2011, PRECISE Act, Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012, SECURE IT Act, Cybersecurity Act of 2012; FBI-Issues Lobbied: Radicalization of American Muslims, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Civil Liberties, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligences Operation Guide Updates, Patriot Act, Secure Communities, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; FCC-Issues Lobbied: Media Ownership, Media Diversity, Framework of Broadband Access, Net Neutrality; FTC-Issues Lobbied: COPPA; Information Security Oversight Office-Issues Lobbied: EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-DO39, Controlled Unclassified Information; National Archives-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Economic Counsel-Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking; National Security Counsel-Issues Lobbied: Considered Executive Order on Human Rights, EO 12958, Improving classification policy; Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs-Issues Lobbied: PREA Rule covering immigration detainees; Office of Management and Budget-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, National ID, REAL ID, PREA Rule covering immigration detainees; Office of the Director of National Intelligence-Issues Lobbied: Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Information Sharing, Intelligence Collection, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Office of Personnel Management-Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; Patent and Trademark Office-Issues Lobbied: Genetic Testing, Scientific Freedom; State Department-Issues Lobbied: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Report, Labor Trafficking, PVS Data and Reporting; U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services-Issues Lobbied: Unlawful presence waivers; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice, VRA Enforcement- Voter ID/ Voter Suppression laws; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Issues Lobbied: Secure Communities, ICE Detention Standards and conditions, PBNDS, Prosecutorial Discretion, ICE enforcement, ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning: ICE Detention Standards and condition, PBNDS; U.S. Sentencing Commission-Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, Implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act, Sentencing Reform, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, U.S. Sentencing Commission Comments to 2012 Amendments, Drug and Immigration Amendments, Sentencing; White House-Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination, Womens Rights, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act, HHS Rule on Insurance Coverage for Contraception, Trafficking, Department of Health and Human Services Rule on insurance coverage for contraception, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Rights, VAWA Reauthorization, EO 13556; DFARS Case 2011-DO39, Controlled Unclassified Information, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, HR 3523, HR 3674, HR 4527, S 2105, S 2102, S 2151, Cybersecurity Legislation, LGBT, Discrimination, HIV/AIDS, Youth and Schools, WH Domestic Policy Counsel: The Fair Sentencing Act of 2011 (HR 2316), Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Regulations on Insurance Coverage of Contraception, Reproductive Rights
2012 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R.74, Private Prison Information Act of 2011 H.R.82, Drug Court Reauthorization Act. H.R.223, Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act. H.R. 313, Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 S.250, Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.306, National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011. S.401, Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act of 2011. H.R.2316, Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2011. H.R.2449, Fresh Start Act of 2011 S.132, Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011. S.645/H.R.1360, Child Protection Improvements Act of 2011. S.1231, the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011. S.1301, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011. H.R. 2870, the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2011 Draft legislation prohibiting all federal agencies from pressuring companies and other organizations to waive their attorney-client privilege, work product, or employee legal protections in return for cooperation credit during investigations and other civil and criminal enforcement matters Proposed changes to Justice Department internal policy involving waiver of attorney-client privilege, work product, and employee legal protections as conditions for receiving cooperation credit during investigations (set forth in August 2008 corporate charging guidelines amendment to U.S. Attorneys Manual [Filip Memorandum]) Proposed Presidential executive order applying a modified version of the Justice Departments August 2008 corporate charging guidelines provisions dealing with waiver of attorney-client privilege, work product, and employee legal protections to all federal agencies Proposed changes to Department of Housing and Urban Development policy involving waiver of attorney-client privilege and work product protections (including the written policy set forth in the HUDs February 3, 2006 formal Notice to public housing authorities [PHAs] and permanently incorporated into HUD guidance at Appendix 6 to HUD Handbook 1530.1 REV-5, Litigation dated May 2004 and Section 7.4G of HUD Handbook 7460.8 REV-2, Procurement Handbook for Public Housing Agencies dated March 2007, and the informal policy of requesting that such public housing authorities waive these protections during audits and investigations) Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Proposed Rule on Confidential Treatment of Privileged Information, Docket No. CFPB-2012-0010; RIN 3170-AA20, 77 Fed. Reg. 15286 (March 15, 2012) H.R. 4014, S. 2099, legislation clarifying that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can receive privileged information from supervised entities and share the information with other federal agencies without waiving the attorney-client privilege as to third parties H.R.1823, Criminal Code Modernization and Simplification Act of 2011 H.R.1254, Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 H.R.1771, Justice Integrity Act H.R.1793, Clean Up Government Act of 2011 H.R.1913, Bryne/JAG Program Accountability Act H.R.2212/S.2017, Democracy Restoration Act H.R.2242, Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2011 H.R.2243, Literacy, Education and Rehabilitation Act H.R.2244, Prisoner Incentive Act of 2011 H.R.2303, Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2011 S. 1670, H.R.3618, End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 S.1731, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2011 S. 605, the Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 S. 2195, the Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act of 2012 Advocated adoption of ABA Standards in regards to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission to Eliminate Prison Rape. Advocated policy in regards to oversight of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to policies that may reduce barriers to employment of persons with criminal records
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| Anna G. Eshoo | Democratic | CA |
| Barbara Lee | Democratic | CA |
| Barney Frank | Democratic | MA |
| Ben Ray Luján | Democratic | NM |
| Betty McCollum | Democratic | MN |
| Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | NJ |
| Bob Filner | Democratic | CA |
| Bobby L. Rush | Democratic | IL |
| Carolyn McCarthy | Democratic | NY |
| Cedric L. Richmond | Democratic | LA |
| Charles B. Rangel | Democratic | NY |
| Chris Van Hollen | Democratic | MD |
| Corrine Brown | Democratic | FL |
| Dale E. Kildee | Democratic | MI |
| Danny K. Davis | Democratic | IL |
| David E. Price | Democratic | NC |
| Dennis J. Kucinich | Democratic | OH |
| Diana DeGette | Democratic | CO |
| Donald Payne | Democratic | NJ |
| Donna F. Edwards | Democratic | MD |
| Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | OR |
| Ed Pastor | Democratic | AZ |
| Eddie Bernice Johnson | Democratic | TX |
| Edolphus Towns | Democratic | NY |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton | Democratic | DC |
| Elijah E. Cummings | Democratic | MD |
| Eni F. H. Faleomavaega | Democratic | AS |
| Fortney Pete Stark | Democratic | CA |
| G. K. Butterfield | Democratic | NC |
| Gary C. Peters | Democratic | MI |
| Gary L. Ackerman | Democratic | NY |
| George Miller | Democratic | CA |
| Grace F. Napolitano | Democratic | CA |
| Gregory W. Meeks | Democratic | NY |
| Gwen Moore | Democratic | WI |
| Hansen Clarke | Democratic | MI |
| Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Democratic | GA |
| James P. Moran | Democratic | VA |
| Janice D. Schakowsky | Democratic | IL |
| Jared Polis | Democratic | CO |
| Jerrold Nadler | Democratic | NY |
| Jesse L. Jackson Jr. | Democratic | IL |
| Jim McDermott | Democratic | WA |
| John D. Dingell | Democratic | MI |
| John Lewis | Democratic | GA |
| John W. Olver | Democratic | MA |
| José E. Serrano | Democratic | NY |
| Judy Chu | Democratic | CA |
| Keith Ellison | Democratic | MN |
| Laura Richardson | Democratic | CA |
| Lloyd Doggett | Democratic | TX |
| Loretta Sanchez | Democratic | CA |
| Luis V. Gutiérrez | Democratic | IL |
| Lynn C. Woolsey | Democratic | CA |
| Maurice D. Hinchey | Democratic | NY |
| Maxine Waters | Democratic | CA |
| Mazie K. Hirono | Democratic | HI |
| Melvin L. Watt | Democratic | NC |
| Michael M. Honda | Democratic | CA |
| Pedro R. Pierluisi | Democratic | PR |
| Raúl M. Grijalva | Democratic | AZ |
| Rick Larsen | Democratic | WA |
| Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Democratic | VA |
| Sam Farr | Democratic | CA |
| Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | TX |
| Steve Cohen | Democratic | TN |
| Steven R. Rothman | Democratic | NJ |
| Terri A. Sewell | Democratic | AL |
| Timothy V. Johnson | Republican | IL |
| Wm. Lacy Clay | Democratic | MO |
| Yvette D. Clarke | Democratic | NY |
| Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | CA |
Client expense: $378,998 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office
Client expense: $378,998 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $445,557 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
Client expense: $524,700 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bureau of the Census, Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Election Assistance Commission (EAC), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
Client expense: $477,443 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $489,367 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Election Commission (FEC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $467,765 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $476,253 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Peace Corps, SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $580,938 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Corporation for Natl & Community Service, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Election Commission (FEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Peace Corps, SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, Vice President of the U.S., White House Office
Client expense: $62,500 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Voice of America, White House Office
Client expense: $230,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Legal Services Corporation, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
Client expense: $580,938 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Corporation for Natl & Community Service, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Election Commission (FEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Peace Corps, SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $230,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Legal Services Corporation, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, Vice President of the U.S., White House Office
Client expense: $62,500 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Voice of America, White House Office
Client expense: $446,267 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
Client expense: $62,500 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Voice of America, White House Office
Client expense: $62,500 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Voice of America, White House Office
Client expense: $371,468 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Peace Corps, SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $300,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Legal Services Corporation, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Park Service (NPS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Voice of America, White House Office
Client expense: $507,603 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Justice Program, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), White House Office
Client expense: $250,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Legal Services Corporation, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office