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Today, the CA Senate advanced legislation to require police throughout the state to adhere to evidence-based standards during eyewitness identifications. Read More

SB 1421 will open California police use of force records and records of officers found guilty of committing misconduct, like planting evidence and sexually assaulting members of the public. Read More

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a history of issuing illegal execution protocols. After the agency’s last attempt to adopt a protocol was twice rejected by the state’s own Office of Administrative Law, the CDCR decided to bypass that process entirely. But the Administrative Procedure Act requires agencies to provide the public with notice and an opportunity to comme... Read More

Starbucks. Colorado State College. Air B&B. Nordstrom Rack. Yale University. Grandview Golf Club. Oakland's Lake Merritt. In the last month, “incidents” in each of these locales have made headlines, incidents in which white people have called the police on people of color—either African American or Native American—accusing them of everything from burglary to acting suspicious to golfing t... Read More

San Francisco – Asian American officials and leaders will gather Thursday to warn voters that Proposition H, the increased use of force Taser policy measure on the June 5th San Francisco ballot, is misleading and dangerous.  The measure is backed by nearly $500,000 in highly deceptive advertising purchased by the local police union, the San Francisco Police Officers Association, cla... Read More

Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced legislation to open law enforcement misconduct and use of force records. Read More

The Trump administration is ramping up surveillance of what people say on social media — and it’s doing so largely in secret. Social media surveillance by the government raises serious concerns about free speech, racial and religious profiling, and privacy. The ACLU today filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how agencies like the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are... Read More

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Today the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations of California released emails between Amazon employees and local law enforcement revealing how the company has been pushing its facial recognition product, prompting privacy objections about how the technology is being used. The emails were obtained through freedom of information requests submitted by the ACLU.The documents are the result of a s... Read More

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on May 23, 2018 demanding records of ICE’s relationship with private companies to access vast troves of information about drivers through Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) databases. Earlier in 2018, it was revealed that ICE purchased access to two private databases of ALPR data for p... Read More