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Sacramento resident Misael Echeveste and two local nonprofit organizations, United Latinos and NorCal Resist, today announced a settlement in their lawsuit against Sheriff Scott Jones for illegally transferring immigrants from the county jail to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California has filed a lawsuit to protect the constitutional rights of defendants with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities in California.

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The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights on behalf of the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria regarding repeated acts of discrimination against Native American students and students with disabilities in Loleta Union School District. The complaint reveals troubling patterns of racial hostilit... Read More

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While abortion is legal in California, pregnancy criminalization is a rising trend that needs to be addressed. Read More

The Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments this upcoming Wednesday, Nov. 9th in Brackeen v. Haaland, a case that could gut the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — a law which establishes basic requirements to protect Native American children from continued forced removal from their families, tribes, and tribal culture.  Read More

On July 14, 2021, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, Disability Rights Advocates, King & Spalding LLP, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise filed a class action complaint against the City of Mountain View for enacting two ordinances that, together, severely restricted when and where “oversized vehicles” (OSVs) could park in the City. The plaintiffs i... Read More

The ACLU of Northern California releases the third episode of Gold Chains, our podcast about California’s hidden history of slavery. It connects the dots between an early California law that allowed white settlers to enslave Indigenous children and a current U.S. Supreme Court case Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Disability Rights Advocates, Legal Aid of Sonoma County, and California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Sebastopol for enacting an ordinance that prohibits vehicles “used for human habitation” from parking anywhere within city limits during the day. Read More

An ACLU lawsuit challenges a Sebastopol ordinance designed to drive unhoused people out of town by banning vehicles "used for human habitation" from parking anywhere within city limits during the day. Read More