Mohammad Tajsar is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. He joined the organization in 2017. Primarily a litigator, Mohammad’s work focuses on national security and counterterrorism policy, as well as government surveillance and consumer privacy. Mohammad’s current docket includes Fazaga v. FBI, a challenge to the FBI’s surveillance of mosques in Orange County, and Adlerstein v. Customs and Border Protection, a constitutional challenge to the surveillance and detention of immigrant rights lawyers and non-profit leaders. He also has significant experience protecting individuals' civil rights and privacy against public and private sector use of surveillance technology, and regularly speaks on digital rights, consumer privacy, and how communities and consumers can protect themselves online and in the world.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Mohammad served as an associate at Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP, a Pasadena, California-based law firm specializing in civil rights and workers’ rights.
Mohammad began his legal career as a law clerk in United States District Court for the District of Nevada and a legal fellow at the ACLU of Southern California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and from UCLA.
