Bio
Hugh Handeyside (@hhandeyside) was a senior staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project, where he worked on issues related to government watchlisting, racial and religious discrimination, due process, and border-related practices. He is a graduate of Stanford University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Handeyside previously worked for several years on complex litigation matters at Perkins Coie LLP and Corr Cronin Michelson Baumgardner & Preece LLP. From 2011-2012, he clerked for the Hon. John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Prior to law school, Mr. Handeyside worked for two years at the CIA, where he was an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Center.
Featured work
![An FBI employee guards the entrance doors to the Detroit City Council on the 13th floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2021, in Detroit.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/09/Regular-FBI-Watchlist-400x266.jpg)
Sep 9, 2021
The Watchlisting System Exemplifies the Government’s Post-9/11 Embrace of Biased Profiling
![President Joe Biden speaks behind podium to American service members in England](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/07/Biden-Domestic-Terrorism-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jul 9, 2021
Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy Entrenches Bias and Harmful Law Enforcement Power
![A U.S. Customs and Border Protection checking the identification of someone seated in a car.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/WEB20-CBP-Officer-Checking-Passport-Land-Border-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
May 22, 2020
This Family Just Reminded CBP We Don’t Lose Our Rights at the Border
![A CBP officer watches over travellers at an airport.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/web20-cbpofficer-blogimage-wordpress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 3, 2020
CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests
![Hands hold a cellular telephone, with a security screening conveyor belt and other people in the background](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/11/cell-phone-security-OPT-400x266.jpg)
Nov 13, 2019
Federal Court Rules That Border Officers Can’t Arbitrarily Search Our Electronic Devices
![A CBP officer checks a passenger's ID](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-cbp-airport-id-scan-flickr-blogimage-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jul 11, 2019
CBP Can’t Detain Domestic Flight Passengers for Refusing Suspicionless ID Checks
![CBP Officer processes a passenger into the United States at an airport](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-cbp-passport-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 30, 2019
We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out.
![CBP officer watching pedestrian entrance](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-cbp-officer-entrance-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Mar 7, 2019
The Government Is Detaining and Interrogating Journalists and Advocates at the US-Mexico Border
![FBI Building](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-fbibuilding-1160x768_0-400x266.jpg)
Jan 17, 2019
The FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts
![CBP Uniform](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-cbpuniform-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 1, 2018
A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn’t a Rights-Free Zone