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Today, California lawmakers introduced Assembly Bill 3 and Senate Bill 6 to provide legal representation to the state’s immigrant communities who will be targeted by the federal government’s efforts to ramp up deportation programs and go after new classes of people for deportation. Read More

When she was 17 years old, Rosa* fled her home country and came to the U.S. seeking a better life. As she made her way across the border, she was raped. After she arrived in the U.S. alone, she was taken into federal custody and then placed with a Catholic organization that receives taxpayer money to provide services to young women like Rosa. Read More

Each year, thousands of Californians are kept in jail awaiting trial simply because they can't afford to post bail. Read More

Download the Fall 2016 ACLU of Northern California Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. Read More

The California Healthy Youth Act is a 2016 law that requires all California schools to teach comprehensive sex education to their students at least once in middle school and once in high school. Read More

California Healthy Youth Act es una ley del 2016 que requiere que todas las escuelas de California enseñen una educación sexual integral a los estudiantes por lo menos una vez en la secundaria, y una vez en la preparatoria. Read More

President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted that anyone who burns a flag should be jailed or even stripped of their U.S. citizenship. The idea that the government could use citizenship as a punishment for political speech is not simply unconstitutional, but fundamentally un-American. Read More

On opening day of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C., I crossed the threshold with a memory deeply embedded in my psyche. Read More

On January 20, President Obama will hand Donald Trump the keys to the surveillance state. What can you do to protect against government spying? Read More

Acts of hate are on the rise with more than 400 hate incidents reported across the U.S. – many targeting Black people, immigrants, Muslims, and Jewish people. Know your rights. Read More