Alex Datig is publisher of Front Page Index, a political media and current events resource which is also hosted on Grabien Media where Front Page Index is a contributor for more than seven years. Datig is a multi-media content producer having developed audio and video content for internet, radio and television. In 2019, her news trend driven social media content was shared by President Donald J. Trump and other high-ranking officials in politics and media.
Datig is double major in Criminal Justice Administration Management and Communications and is FEMA Certified by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Emergency Management Interagency Communications. She moved to the United States with her parents in 1986.
Datig has experience as a political advisor and consultant for more than 18 years with a long-standing background campaigning on public safety, public policy, environmental issues, drug policy, homelessness, Veteran homelessness and human trafficking.
Datig began her career in politics in 2001, working along-side California State Senator and Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden, campaigning for him and with him for 12 years.
Her experience in the private sector includes Director of Finance at a Downtown Los Angeles employment and government labor relations law firm. A Beverly Hills based business and real estate litigation firm and a small civil rights law practice headed by a former longtime Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney who specialized in law enforcement litigation, involving police practices and police union settlement negotiations. She also oversaw operations for a prominent, global corporate branding and crisis communications firm in Downtown Los Angeles and managed the Los Angeles division of a publicly traded corporate entertainment company. Datig got her first administrative job in the legal field in 1997 with the law office representing police misconduct victim Rodney King.
Datig is a strong supporter of the historic measure California Proposition 35, Stop Human Trafficking in California, for which she acted as liaison to secure unanimous endorsement from the Los Angeles City Council in 2012. Prop. 35 enacts the most severe penalties against child and adult youth sex traffickers, placing them on the State sex offender registry. Prop. 35 also funds training for law enforcement to recognize victims and get him or her into treatment and rehabilitation.
In 2011, Datig served as an advisor to the Transition Team for California Attorney General Kamala Harris' subcommittee on Environmental Justice.
In 2010, campaigning on the side of treatment and intervention reform, she was instrumental in the defeat of California Proposition 19, The Regulate Control & Tax Cannabis Act.
She served on the Advisory Board for the Coalition for a Drug Free California and on the County of Los Angeles Task Force for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, helping to develop a nationwide strategy to aid victims of human trafficking.
Datig was honored by the Los Angeles City Council for an independent investigation conducted on massive pollution of the L.A. River by the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.
Datig is covered in news mediums such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Politico, Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, CNN, CNN International, Daily Caller, The Associated Press, Dr. Drew, Behind The Badge with Bernard Kerik, The Todd Starnes Show, Geraldo Rivera Live, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, KABC 790 Talk Radio, CBS, NBC, The Mo Kelly Show, National Review, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Arizona Politics & Culture and others.
Datig has never been married and has no children.
