04/08/16: The Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of the Black Community Tickets, Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite

Our country is waking up to the pervasiveness and brutality of policing in black communities. At the same time, we are engaged in the most important surveillance debate in a generation. Conversations about these trends rarely intersect. On April 8, 2016, Georgetown Law and the Center on Privacy & Technology will hold a landmark conference to begin bridging that gap. Entitled The Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of the African American Community, the conference will explore the role of law enforcement and national security surveillance in the relationship between African Americans and their government – beginning with the colonial era and continuing to the present day. The conference will bring together Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, scholars, activists and members of the criminal justice, law enforcement and national security communities.