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Scott v. Bowen (CA Voting Rights Clarification)
Aug 06, 2015
All adult Californians have a constitutional right to vote except while they are “imprisoned or on parole for conviction of a felony” or are mentally incompetent. But the California Secretary of State has expanded this exclusion to include people who are neither imprisoned nor on parole but are on new forms of community supervision created by California’s 2011 Criminal Justice Realignment Act. As ...
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The Government Is Watching #BlackLivesMatter, And It's Not Okay
Aug 04, 2015
According to documents recently obtained by The Intercept in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the government is surveilling the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
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Voting Rights Restored to Thousands of Californians
Aug 04, 2015
By withdrawing a voting rights challenge that was taken up by his predecessor, on Aug. 4, 2014, Secretary of State Alex Padilla sent the nation a message that California will not stand for discrimination in voting and that he will fight to protect the right to vote for all eligible Californians.
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California Federal Judge to Government: Get a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data
Jul 30, 2015
A federal district court held that the government must obtain a warrant to obtain historical cell phone location data. This important ruling makes it clear that we don’t have to give up privacy to participate in modern society.
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Sandra Bland's Only Crime: She Knew Her Rights
Jul 30, 2015
Sandra Bland had a constitutional right to give her arresting officer the middle finger. She could have even told him to f*** off. Nothing in the law prevented her from being rude.
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ACLU Sues State Hospital System for Failing Criminal Defendants with Psychiatric & Intellectual Disabilities
Jul 29, 2015
Today the ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit charging two state agencies with leaving defendants with disabilities to languish in jail, denying them treatment and their right to due process.
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Courts in California Demand Warrant for Cell Phone Location Information
Jul 29, 2015
The ACLU of Northern California has joined the Federal Public Defender’s Office and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in supporting a warrant requirement for access to cell phone location information.
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Trans Women Are in a Fight for Their Lives. We Must Join Them.
Jul 28, 2015
Trans women’s lives are endangered when renting hotel rooms, driving cars, walking down the street. How much longer will we sit idly by while they are murdered for having the audacity to exist? This must stop.
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ACLU SoCal Files Lawsuit over Misappropriated Education Funds
Jul 28, 2015
The ACLU of Southern California sued LAUSD, asking that the school district be required to invest the appropriate amount of money to develop new or improved services for the high need students targeted under LCFF.
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