Barbara Ellen Handschu is an American political activist and lawyer whose surname was memorialized on a set of federal guidelines " restrictions on police surveillance.
Education
Handschu graduated from New York University and the University of Michigan Law School, but began her career as a law secretary to Justice Hilda Schwartz until her 1969 arrest at a squatters" demonstration in Manhattan caused her to switch careers to criminal defense lawyer
Career
Signed by the city in 1985", which became known as the Handschu decree. Judge Charles South. Haight, Junior., the federal judge who signed off on the guidelines in 1985 "relaxed them, ostensibly to assist antiterrorism detection" in 2003. In 2005, the same year Handschu herself appeared at an anti-Iraq War protest, Judge Haight ordered the New York City Police Department "in a 51-page order.. to change its surveillance practices at events where people gather to exercise their First Amendment rights".