{"id":7828,"date":"2024-06-27T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/people\/tracy-westen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:21:43","slug":"tracy-westen","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/people\/tracy-westen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Westen"},"template":"","class_list":["post-7828","person","type-person","status-publish","hentry","person_type-national-governing-board"],"acf":{"details":{"first_name":"Tracy","last_name":"Westen","title":"Member Emeritus","organization":"","headshot":4937,"high_res_headshot":"","person_type":4,"hide_bio_page":false,"issues":false,"email_address":"","helper_social_links":null},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h2>Meet Tracy...<\/h2>\r\nTracy Westen is a public interest attorney, law professor and Founder\/CEO of the Center for Governmental Studies, which created media reforms and model campaign finance, election and ethics laws for state and local governments. \u00a0He created the California Commission on Campaign Financing, California Citizens Budget Commission and California Citizens Commission on Higher Education. He also created and built new media models for civic engagement, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/policyarchive.org\/\">PolicyArchive.org<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest free, open access source of public policy research;\u00a0California Channel, the nation\u2019s largest state CSPAN; Democracy Network, the nation\u2019s first online system of candidate debate and information; VideoVoter, a video-on-demand voter information system for states and cities; and Digital Democracy, a prototype for citizen-to-elected-official dialogue. He authored, co-authored or edited over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgs.policyarchive.org\">75 books and reports on media, democracy and judicial reforms<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTracy was Vice President of Winner &amp; Associates, a Los Angeles strategic communications consulting firm; Chair of the Los Angeles Municipal Access Policy Board; and Chair of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grassroots.com\/\">Grassroots.com<\/a>. He created Public Communication, Inc., the nation\u2019s first public interest advertising agency, which developed radio, TV and print messages on auto safety, nutrition, and social welfare. He was Deputy Director for Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission and helped launch the FTC Children\u2019s Television Advertising\u00a0Rule-Making\u00a0Proceeding. He was an Attorney at Covington &amp; Burling, Washington, DC.\r\n\r\nTracy taught Communications Law, First Amendment Law, Criminal Law and Appellate Litigation at the UCLA Law School and taught Communications Law and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.\r\n\r\nTracy received his BA from Pomona College, MA from Oxford University and law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law. \u00a0He has received public service awards from Common Cause (\u201cvisionary architect for change\u201d), National League of Women Voters (\u201cinnovative use of interactive media\u201d) and Pomona College (\u201chigh achievement in community service\u201d)."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tracy Westen - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/personnes-2\/tracy-westen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tracy Westen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/personnes-2\/tracy-westen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-25T17:21:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/people\/tracy-westen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/people\/tracy-westen\/\",\"name\":\"Tracy Westen - 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