1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

I urge you not to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without meaningful reforms to protect Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 authorizes warrantless collection of communications from non‑U.S. persons overseas, but it routinely results in the acquisition and later search of Americans’ communications. That capability has been used to surveil journalists, activists, political speakers, and immigrant communities, and oversight reports show ongoing violations and risky uses. Congress must end warrantless “backdoor” searches of Americans’ data collected under Section 702 by requiring a warrant or individualized Title I FISA order before querying communications that belong to U.S. persons. Congress must also close the “data broker” loophole that allows agencies to acquire detailed location and behavioral datasets from commercial brokers without ordinary judicial process. These reforms are essential to prevent warrantless domestic surveillance and misuse by immigration and law‑enforcement agencies. Please oppose any clean reauthorization and support legislation such as the Government Surveillance Reform Act (or equivalent safeguards) that limits bulk collection, restricts access to queried data, increases transparency, and strengthens oversight and civil‑liberties protections. Reauthorizing Section 702 without these changes would leave intact powers that can be combined with commercial data and post‑collection queries to bypass Fourth Amendment protections. Thank you for defending both national security and the constitutional privacy rights of people in our district.