Stevie Glaberson (she/her) is the Director of Research & Advocacy for the Center on Privacy & Technology, where she supervises the Center’s programmatic work. Stevie joined the Center after serving as a Visiting Professor and the Director of Georgetown Law’s Civil Litigation Clinic, which she previously helped to found as a clinical teaching fellow and staff attorney. Outside of her work at Georgetown, Stevie has served as a staff attorney focusing on access to justice issues with Public Justice, a national non-profit public interest law firm. Previously, she defended low-income New Yorkers against government interference with their right to parent their children, with Brooklyn Defender Services’ Family Defense Practice. Stevie’s primary area of legal expertise is the surveillance and policing of marginalized families.
Motherhood, Community, and Access to Sensitive Healthcare
In recent years, authorities across the country have taken a variety of actions to punish and criminalize individuals in need of sensitive health care, like abortion and miscarriage treatment. Studies have looked at the prevalence of information about such care being used by the criminal policing system, to pursue criminal charges. While implicit in some of these reports, there has been no concerted effort to investigate and document the ways that information about individuals’ access to sensitive medical treatment like abortion, misscarriage, or gender-affirming care, is getting to and being used by family policing systems – not to criminally punish people, but to threaten them with family separation, place them under surveillance, push them out of communities, or separate them from one another. In collaboration with If/When/How, this project aims to fill that gap.