Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019 (H.R. 2476) was signed into law by President Trump on Tuesday January 28th. The bill authorizes $375 million over the next five years for the Department
Concerns about politically motivated enforcement of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) have once again been raised after three Senators sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting an investigation of the National
The Global Fragility Act of 2019 (GFA), which establishes the first-ever comprehensive U.S. government approach to preventing global violence and instability, was signed into law December 20, 2019 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,
The Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC) has announced the unsealing of a new case challenging the tax-exempt status of the New Israel Fund under New York state law. From the filings available at press time, it
Use of the U.S. False Claims Act (FCA) to attack nonprofit organizations’ programs in Palestine took a setback in late December 2019 when the Zionist Advocacy Center’s (TZAC) FCA case against Oxfam Great Britain was
After circulating a discussion draft for several months, the Senate introduced its version of a Bank Secrecy Act bill with the ILLICIT CASH Act (S. 2563) on September 26, 2019. Congressional efforts to update
The examination of foreign influence on U.S. elections has put a heavy focus on the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), an until-fairly-recently-somewhat-ignored law that requires those working for a
The U.S. House of Representatives on October 25, 2019, passed a bill designed to update the Bank Secrecy Act for the first time since the PATRIOT Act. The bill contains report language that could add
Plan Expands Capacity and Maintains Continuity The Charity & Security Network (C&SN) announced today that Kay Guinane, its founder and Executive Director, will transition from her current position and assume the role of part-time Senior
Headlines in recent weeks serve as reminders that the long-standing problem of government surveillance of civil society has not gone away. Instead it is growing into a threat to the privacy of communications of civil