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The decision by SF Pride and the City of San Francisco to dramatically increase police presence at this year’s Pride festivities creates a dangerous situation for LGBT people of color, the exact communities the organizers are recognizing with their 2016 theme. Read More

The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the City of Hayward and its Police Department for charging the National Lawyers Guild unlawful and excessive costs as the price of disclosing body camera footage the NLG requested under the California Public Records Act. Read More

Today the Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked on United States v. Texas. The one-line non-decision leaves unanswered the central question about the president’s authority to set policy guidelines for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in the deportation system. But it is a non-decision with a profound impact. Read More

Advocates and community members unveiled their assessment of a pilot program giving federal immigration agents unfettered access to the Fresno County Jail. The program is shrouded in secrecy and leaves immigrants vulnerable to abuses by ICE. Read More

On June 21, the Dept. of Health and Human Services dismissed complaints regarding group health insurance in CA, affirming that safe and legal abortion is basic health care that all women should be able to access without interference. Read More

Sacramento – Several police officers from five Bay Area cities, including Oakland and Richmond, are currently the subject of internal investigations following allegations that over 20 current and former officers abused their power and had sex with a sex worker in exchange for protection and advanced warning about prostitution stings. Now 18, the woman says she was underage when some of the encount... Read More

San Francisco – Following the mass shooting and murder at Latin Night at Pulse, an LGBTQ club in Orlando, Florida, Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California, issued the following statement:We hold in our hearts those who were injured, those who were killed, and the families and loved ones who are mourning in Orlando, and throughout the country after the shooting and mass ... Read More

ACLU of Northern California, along with a coalition of legal organizations, has brought suit against Solano County Superior Court, challenging the court’s practice of suspending the driver’s licenses of people who are too poor to pay exorbitant traffic fines. In California, millions of people do not have valid driver’s licenses because they cannot afford to pay traffic fines and fees. In 2015, ove... Read More

This piece originally appeared at The Huffington Post. When he was 10 years old, Audley Lyon moved from Jamaica to the United States. He grew up here, fell in love, married a U.S. citizen, and served honorably in the U.S. Air Force. Then Immigration and Customs Enforcement locked him up. It should have been simple for Mr. Lyon to obtain the certifications he needed to begin to fight the ... Read More

A lawsuit was filed today against Solano County Superior Court, challenging the court’s practice of suspending the driver’s licenses of people who are too poor to pay exorbitant traffic fines. In 2015, over 11,000 driver’s licenses were suspended in Solano County for failure to pay alone. Read More