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Plaintiff Eric Miller is in his fourth year of graduate studies in physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he conducts cutting-edge particle-physics research. He needs to continue this research in collaboration with an Iranian researcher who was planning to visit the United States in April – but is now excluded by the ban. Plaintiff Jane Roe is a United States citizen and a resi... Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California representing YWCA of Silicon Valley filed a motion to intervene in this lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from so-called "sanctuary cities." 

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Facebook now clearly prohibits the use of company data for surveillance. These updates respond to demands from a coalition that includes the ACLU of California, the Center for Media Justice, and Color of Change. As a next step, the coalition is pushing the companies to establish robust systems to ensure that important rules protecting users against surveillance are followed.

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Knowing Trayvon Martin's story, and the history of the struggle against racial profiling, helps us to free ourselves from the myths of racism.

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On March 1, 2017, the ACLU filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the YWCA Silicon Valley in a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from so-called "sanctuary jurisdictions."

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Download the Spring 2017 ACLU of Northern California Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. Read More

It’s essential for people to be able to communicate about issues that they care about. That’s why it's alarming that AB 165 has been introduced in the CA Legislature that would gut essential protections in public schools.

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The new executive order banning the issuance of visas to people from certain countries is based on the same religious animus that fueled the Trump's first attempt at a Muslim ban. Read More

The Trump administration has conceded that its original Muslim ban was indefensible... The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban. - Omar Jadwat, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Director Read More

The City of San Jose claims that that electronic messages dealing with official business that its employees send to one another are not public records if the employees send them using their personal accounts or devices. The ACLU Foundations of California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are asking the California Supreme Court to grant review in the interest of an open and transparent governm... Read More