Bio
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli is the criminal justice and drug policy director at the ACLU of California. She leads the ACLU’s statewide many criminal justice and drug policy campaigns – including protecting the significant reforms embedded in Proposition 47 and leveraging the Affordable Care Act to advance a public health approach to drug policy. She has a decade of experience working on criminal justice and drug policy reform in California, including spearheading historic campaigns to revise the state’s drug possession penalties (SB 1506 & SB 649). Before joining the ACLU, Dooley-Sammuli was deputy state director with the Drug Policy Alliance, where she led the organization’s criminal justice advocacy in California. In her previous career, she was an editor based in Shanghai, China, with The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Featured work
May 11, 2017
Behind Many ‘Mom and Pop’ Bail Bonds Shops Is a Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit From Misery

Nov 10, 2015
A Year in the Life of California’s Historic Shift Toward Smart Justice
