Please leave a voicemail; someone will return your call within 72 hours.

The FBI may lie to you about their motives so remember: you have the right to remain silent and the right to speak to an attorney. Do not talk to the FBI or let FBI agents into your home before speaking with an attorney.

The FBI hotline was first launched at the request of community groups following September 11, 2001, in anticipation of increased federal investigations and repression of activists and MENA and Muslim communities. The hotline is intended to help activists and targeted community members exercise their right to remain silent and to resist government intimidation and coercion. The NLG is opposed to cooperation with government investigations.

The hotline’s primary purpose is to provide lawyers for people contacted by FBI or other federal agencies, or subpoenaed to a Grand Jury, in domestic security investigations, but we have also helped people who were targeted in other types of investigations including local law enforcement investigations related to their political activism or religion.