Jude Joffe-Block
Jude Joffe-Block is a reporter at NPR covering how power, politics and influence intersect and how information circulates. Her beat includes the federal government's unprecedented efforts to link and aggregate data sets on people living in the United States.
Earlier in her career, she covered politics, immigration and border issues in Arizona, including for several years as a senior field correspondent for KJZZ in Phoenix and a network of NPR Member stations in the Southwest. For years, she covered the landmark racial profiling lawsuit against former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and then coauthored a book about the case and Arizona's immigration battles. She also previously worked for The Associated Press and freelanced for various outlets as a reporter and editor.
She got her start in journalism in Mexico City and speaks Spanish. She's a graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale University.
Reach her by encrypted message at JudeJB.10 on Signal. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Democratic-led states secured a legal victory to keep the personal data of food recipients out of the federal government's reach. But NPR's reporting shows that millions of records on Americans have already been shared. -
A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution. -
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death. -
Some conservative influencers mourned Kirk's loss, even as others quickly blamed the left. -
Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security. -
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States. -
Twenty-one states are suing after the USDA demanded states turn over sensitive data on food assistance applicants. The lawsuit calls the demand an "Orwellian surveillance campaign." -
The USDA updated its demand to states for food assistance applicants' data to include immigration status and information on household members. States face a July 30 deadline to submit the data. -
The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied for federal food assistance, while a lawsuit is trying to stop the collection. -
After NPR reported on a Department of Homeland Security tool to check the citizenship of registered voters, three U.S. senators are expressing concern about accuracy, transparency and privacy.
