Insecure Communities: Government Surveillance, Mass Deportations and the Fight to Protect Our Civil Liberties

Date 

Add to My Calendar Friday, November 30, 2012 12:00am

Location 

CCR is pleased to co-sponsor a webinar event titled Insecure Communities: Government Surveillance, Mass Deportations, and the Fight to Protect Our Civil Liberties. The panel will feature CCR Legal Worker Ian Head, and the webinar will include information on topics listed below.

  1. Provide background on Secure Communities (S-Comm) and the FBI's Next Generation Identification initiative (NGI), a massive surveillance initiative to expand data collection and sharing between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. For background information on S-Comm and the NGI, click here.
  2. Explain how the two programs interact and why immigrant rights and privacy advocates should be concerned about both
  3. Discuss recent advocacy efforts and begin a conversation about new opportunities for privacy and immigrant rights communities to work together to limit the reach of these programs.
  4. Include a Q & A session featuring Ian Head and representatives from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Rights Working Group. See full panelist bios here.


When: Friday, November 30th from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. EST
Where: Online. RSVP here to reserve a space by Wednesday November 21st. Space is limited!
Hosted by: the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of California at Irvine School of Law
Sponsored by: Center for Constitutional Rights, NDLON, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Rights Working Group

*This event is free and open to the public. Advance RSVP required. RSVP here!
 

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November 16, 2012