Tim Sparapani has joined social networking Web site Facebook as its new director of public policy.

Sparapani is a former senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and associate at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky. He has also served as a legal intern for the Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee, where he assisted Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and volunteered for the ill-fated presidential campaigns of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. Sparapani has degrees from the University of Michigan Law School and Georgetown University.

Meanwhile, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly announced he is running for California attorney general. Kelly, a Democrat, touted his work across the country to make the Internet safer for youth.