John Davisson

John Davisson (he/him) is Deputy Director and Director of Enforcement at EPIC. John’s work at EPIC has covered a wide range of subjects, including consumer and data protection, open government, artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of personal data held by government agencies, the confidentiality of census data, Article III standing, and the freedom of speech. John leads EPIC’s enforcement and litigation work and previously oversaw EPIC’s Consumer Privacy Program.

John has litigated cases under the Freedom of Information Act, Federal Advisory Committee Act, Privacy Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and E-Government Act, both at the trial and appellate levels. John brought EPIC’s case against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to halt the White House’s nationwide collection of voter data, led EPIC’s lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain unreleased material on election interference from the Mueller Report, and is spearheading EPIC’s work on joint litigation challenging the ransacking of personal records databases by the DOGE and other federal agencies. John has testified before Congress and state legislatures, argued before the D.C. Circuit, published in legal journals, and appeared in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Wired, and ProPublica.

John first came to EPIC in 2015 as a summer clerk and returned in 2016 as EPIC’s Appellate Advocacy Fellow, a role in which he authored amicus briefs for federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He previously clerked at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, served as a student attorney in the Civil Rights Section of Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation, and interned at the Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

John is a 2016 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was managing editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, a Georgetown Law Fellow, and an NGO observer to the 9/11 military commission at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. He worked as a journalist before entering the law and earned his B.A. at Columbia University. John is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars.

Areas of expertise: Privacy litigation and enforcement, consumer and data protection, government databases, open government, and voter privacy.

Contact: [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x120