Helping communities, governments, and nonprofits build a more transparent and privacy-respecting digital future.
Making Technology Accountable to the Public
Privacy, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies are transforming nearly every aspect of modern life. While these technologies can provide important public benefits, they also present significant risks to privacy, civil liberties, and democratic accountability when deployed without meaningful oversight.
Secure Justice works alongside governments, nonprofits, community organizations, and advocates to ensure technology serves the public interest. Through litigation, public policy, independent research, and community education, we help strengthen privacy protections, improve government transparency, and safeguard fundamental rights in the digital age.
Privacy advocacy with measurable reach.
Advancing privacy, transparency, and government accountability since 2019.
Supporting work involving local governments, nonprofits, and community organizations across the country.
Equipping community members every year with practical digital privacy and security skills.
Promoting transparency, accountability, and lawful government use of surveillance technologies.
Policy wins, public oversight, and community power.
First Municipal Facial Recognition Ban
Secure Justice helped advance San Francisco's landmark ordinance establishing the nation's first municipal ban on government use of facial recognition technology, helping inspire similar reforms across the country.
Municipal Privacy Oversight
Before founding Secure Justice, Executive Director Brian Hofer helped establish Oakland's nationally recognized Privacy Advisory Commission—the nation's first municipal privacy commission. Building on that experience, Secure Justice later served as a consultant to the City of San Diego and community organizations in establishing San Diego's Privacy Advisory Board, helping expand independent privacy oversight to another major California city.
Predictive Policing Reform
Secure Justice successfully advocated for Oakland's prohibition on predictive policing analytics, helping ensure emerging technologies respect civil rights, due process, and democratic accountability.
Community Privacy Education
Every year Secure Justice equips hundreds of community members, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations with practical digital privacy and security skills through accessible workshops and educational programs.
From local reforms to broader accountability.
Secure Justice founded.
Nation's first municipal facial recognition ban advanced in San Francisco.
Predictive policing analytics ban advanced in Oakland.
San Diego Privacy Advisory Board consulting role.
Strategic litigation, research, and community education.
Practical support for public-serving organizations.
Governments
- Privacy ordinances
- Technology contracts
- Surveillance oversight
Community Organizations
- Digital security
- Privacy education
- Technical assistance
Researchers & Journalists
- Public records
- Policy analysis
- Technical expertise
Privacy Doesn't Protect Itself.
Technology evolves rapidly. Public oversight often does not.
Secure Justice works every day to help ensure that innovation is accompanied by transparency, accountability, and respect for fundamental rights.
Whether you're seeking assistance, attending a workshop, following our work, or making a contribution, we invite you to join us.