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“Voting is a fundamental right and California should be doing everything it can to make registration widely available to all of our state’s citizens,” said Raúl Macías, Voting Rights Project Manager and Attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reportedly planning to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council today.Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program, issued the following statement in response:“The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council, coupled with its abusive use of power at home, only confirm what we’ve always known... Read More

As public outrage around family separation mounts, members of Congress demand access to government-run facilities, and the United Nations condemns us, the Trump administration is attempting to shift the blame — fast. Read More

On Monday afternoon, civil rights, religious, and community organizations are taking their demand that Amazon stop providing face surveillance technology to governments, including police departments, to the company’s headquarters in Seattle. The groups will deliver over 150,000 petition signatures, a coalition letter signed by nearly 70 organizations representing comm... Read More

ACLU Foundation of Northern California lawsuit seeking information about the federal government’s use of location tracking technologies. Specifically, how the government seeks or obtains location information and whether this surveillance practice is constitutional. Read More

Download the Summer 2018 ACLU of Northern California Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. Read More

As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for police reform, countless stories of Black women and girls subjected to excessive force and police misconduct remain untold. We must say their names. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and Protection and Advocacy, Inc. issued a letter to the California Department of Mental Health stating our concern that the state hospital system was forcibly drugging patients who have been tried for crimes and were found not guilty by reason of insanity. Read More

A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction in a class action lawsuit filed by two Bay Area fathers stuck in immigration detention and denied bond hearings. Read More

In past elections, DA candidates ran largely unopposed, but this year, there were more contested DA races in California than in recent memory – perhaps ever before. Although incumbents retained their seats in most counties, all elected DAs in California now know they are under an unprecedented level of public scrutiny. Read More