Jackie Aranda Osorno

Jackie Aranda Osorno

Richard Zitrin Anti-Court Secrecy Senior Attorney

Jackie Aranda Osorno is the Zitrin Anti-Court Secrecy Senior Attorney at Public Justice, where she focuses on increasing public access to court records and proceedings. Jackie has represented advocacy organizations, reporters, and community members in efforts to intervene in litigation to unseal court records or lift confidentiality restrictions. Her ongoing and recent cases include: 

• California Coalition of Women Prisoners v. BOP, in which the government sought to seal documents relating to pervasive and systemic sexual abuse at a federal correctional facility
• Rasmussen v. Disney, in which Disney sought to seal hundreds of documents showing the company knew of gender-based pay disparities and failed to correct them
• Hernandez v. County of Monterey, in which a county jail and correctional health care provider sought to seal reports of independent monitors finding serious and ongoing violations of a settlement agreement relating to medical and mental health care.

As part of the Access to Justice team, Jackie also works to ensure that private companies that profit from mass incarceration are held accountable for the harms they perpetrate. Most recently, Jackie represented a group of civil rights organizations who sought to prevent a correctional health care company’s abuse of the bankruptcy system to discharge its tort liabilities.

Before joining Public Justice, Jackie was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she litigated class actions challenging unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s prisons and unlawful conditions in immigration detention centers in Georgia. Jackie has also represented non-citizens in immigration removal proceedings and migrant parents who were separated from their children by state child protective services agencies. 

Jackie is based in Montgomery, Alabama. She is admitted to practice law in Alabama and California. She is also admitted to the bars of the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District of Alabama, Middle District of Georgia, Central District of California, Northern District of California, and Eastern District of Michigan, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Ninth, and Federal Circuits.