Pride Under Surveillance Legal Issues in Privacy, Biometrics, and Policing of LGBTQ+ Public Spaces

This program examines the rapidly evolving intersection of privacy, surveillance, and LGBTQ+ public life, focusing on real‑world environments like queer bars, ticketed LGBTQ+ events, and Pride gatherings. Attorneys will learn the constitutional baseline for expectations of privacy, New York’s unique constraints on NYPD investigations of political activity (Handschu), and the practical compliance implications of NYC’s biometric notice law for commercial establishments — issues that directly affect venues and organizers serving LGBTQ+ communities.

Speaker: Ari Ezra Waldman, Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine School of Law (has previously held other academic positions at Northeastern University, Princeton University, New York Law School, Fordham University, Tel Aviv University, Yale Law School, and American University Washington College of Law)