Testimony of Survivor Jena-Lisa Jones on Government Privacy Failures

• •The House Oversight Committee held its first hearing for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on May 12, 2026.
• •The Department of Justice released documents that exposed the names, Social Security numbers, and personal details of abuse survivors.
• •Jena-Lisa Jones requested that Congress pass a law requiring the Department of Justice to compensate victims for the harm caused by the unauthorized release of their private information.
• •Jones advocated for mandatory sexual abuse and exploitation education in all middle and high schools nationwide.
• •Jones requested that the President not grant a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell.
• •Jones founded a nonprofit called The Survivors, Inc. to provide life coaching and support to abuse survivors.
• •The testimony asserts that the government failed to provide transparency regarding the 2009 non-prosecution agreement for Jeffrey Epstein.
• •The testimony highlights that survivors were re-traumatized when their identities were made public through government document releases.

The testimony highlights a specific failure by the Department of Justice to protect the identities of sexual abuse survivors, leading to a call for Congress to pass legislation providing financial compensation for those harmed by the data release.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.