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A New Platform Is Launching to Protect Public Servants From an Angry Mob

Wired · Dell Cameron · last updated

A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND MARKETPLACE rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The marketplace is offered by Public Service Alliance (PSA), a private company that says it formed in response to an unprecedented rise in threats against government workers across the United States.

Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platform debuts amid heightened concern over the safety of public officials and their families, especially in the wake of the June killing of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and the attempted assassination of state senator John Hoffman and his wife.

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