#  Jessica Price 

 

 



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Jessica G. Price is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. She has worked on educational equity, language access, police practices, government surveillance and jail conditions. She has successfully litigated the State of California’s failure to respond to school districts’ failures to provide necessary instructional services to English Learner schoolchildren. She drafted the first school district-based toolkit for English learner advocates, and she co-authored the publication “Opportunity Lost: The Widespread Denial of Services to California English Learner Students.” She successfully represented a member of a tagging crew against a criminal gang injunction that would have precluded him from lawfully selling his artwork, settled litigation on behalf of all inmates in the Los Angeles County jails with mobility impairments, and negotiated for Muslim prison inmates to have access to prayer services. She has drafted a training for the Barstow Police Department on potential law enforcement responses to individuals’ refusal to identify themselves, and she is developing a training for Los Angeles County jail staff on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Most recently, she successfully sued for the safe and immediate provision of travel documents to allow the return of a United States citizen whose travel documents were confiscated in Dubai, and she has initiated litigation against the Anaheim city and Sacramento county governments concerning the secrecy of their use of dragnet cell phone surveillance devices. In 2015 she received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award.

  
Jessica graduated from Harvard Law School and graduated with Honors from Yale College. She served as the student representative on the Yale College Council’s Police Advisory Board. After college she worked as a Public Benefits Advocate at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. At Harvard, she was an editor for the Harvard Civil Rights/ Civil Liberties Law Review. She was also Co-Chair of La Alianza, a Latino student and professional organization, she became a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Scholar, and she won first place in the Negotiation Challenge, an international negotiation competition in Leipzig, Germany. After law school, she moved to New Orleans to serve as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana. The following year, she clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has been an attorney with the ACLU since 2010. As a graduate of Crenshaw High School, she has returned to Los Angeles to serve her community as a civil rights attorney.