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U.S. federal courts are retreating from the judiciary’s traditional role as a check on unlawful government action. In response, the ACLU is assessing the landscape, pivoting our strategies, and figuring out how to continue to fight. Read More

The philosophy and spirit of collective power drive the monthly immigration advocacy training series that Luis Ojeda helps lead for the ACLU of Northern California. Read More

The Trump administration is weaponizing technology to build a mass-surveillance state. Read More

A Trump administration presidential executive order threatens to whitewash our nation’s history and silence people’s true experiences. But we're pushing back. Read More

On Thursday, the Trump administration sent federal immigration agents to the Bay Area. They fired flash bangs at peaceful protesters.   Read More

In the past month, we have sued the Trump administration twice to stop illegal arrests of immigrants by ICE. Read More

As an organization committed to racial justice and the rule of law, it is our obligation to put a spotlight on racism and its overzealous cousin, white supremacy. The Trump administration’s immigration policies are explicitly and implicitly fostering a belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that this nation will be better or stronger, whatever superlative fits, with m... Read More

It was Jan. 7, 2025, in the middle of the citrus harvest season in California’s Central Valley. People who earn their livings picking fruit were going about their daily routines. All of a sudden, residents of Bakersfield and the surrounding area started disappearing. Read More

While other states have aggressively rolled back voting rights, California long bucked the trend, making automated voter registration available through the DMV, printing voting materials in many languages, and restoring voting rights to Californians on parole. But recent developments demonstrate that California is not immune to Trump’s corrosive attacks on the integrity of the American electoral ... Read More

For the past six years, Sonoma County's code enforcement section has run an ever-expanding drone surveillance program. They’ve launched more than 700 low-altitude flights that monitor and record residents, their homes and the areas surrounding them. Read More

California applies the death penalty disproportionately to people of color, especially when the victim is white. A recent, rigorous statewide study found that Black people are up to 8.7 times as likely to be sentenced to death as similarly situated non-Black defendants, Latino people are up to 6.2 times as likely to be sentenced to death, and defendants of all races are up to 8.8 times as likely t... Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California has filed a lawsuit to block Sonoma County code inspectors from using drones to conduct surveillance of people's homes without a warrant. Read More