MD
Susan Farag is a senior public safety policy and budget analyst with the Montgomery County Council in Maryland. With more than 15 years of experience in public safety policy, research, budgeting, and analysis, she advises the Council and other policymakers on affordable, evidence-based policing practices. While her work spans policing, fire and rescue, EMS, corrections, and the courts, her recent work has focused on policing policy and organizational initiatives.
She has served in multiple advisory and analytical roles related to changes in policing policy, including providing expert guidance to the County Executive’s Task Force on Public Safety and its subsequent Implementation Committee. She also provides staff support to the Advisory Commission on Policing, a civilian advisory body that advises the Council on police practices.
Most recently, Susan has worked with the Council, the Montgomery County Police Department, and other local law enforcement agencies to fund and implement technology-based approaches to public safety. She is especially interested in identifying where well-intentioned policy changes or technology deployments fall short, create new risks, or produce unintended consequences. Her role is to assess the full landscape of options and tradeoffs and to translate research and complex data into practical guidance for policymakers and public safety leaders.
Susan holds a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law and is pursuing certification in data analytics. Her research interests focus on organizational design and performance, public confidence, and how these together influence public safety outcomes.