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Today, a bill to close a significant loophole in existing law regarding jailhouse informants passed unanimously out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. Assembly Bill 359, by Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), comes in the wake of controversy in Orange County over use of jailhouse informants and revelations that two informants were paid over $335,000 in cash payments fr... Read More

The ACLU of California commends CA Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye for seeking to ensure that immigrants can safely access court houses without fear of deportation.

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On day one of the Muslim ban, people took to the streets and the airports because they knew that this ban was disgraceful and discriminatory. We're heartened to see the courts repeatedly affirm that these executive orders are fatally flawed. The Muslim ban is part of a larger lie that Donald Trump is trying to sell to the American public—a lie that attempts to turn Muslims and immigrants into scap... Read More

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

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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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

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

ICE lied to local officials in Santa Cruz regarding recent immigration raids. This is another reason that California should strengthen its power to resist the deportation machine. Read More

Today’s ruling is reason to celebrate. If the court had granted the Trump administration’s request, U.S. citizens, residents, and their family members here and across the world would have once again been facing chaos and uncertainty. The Trump administration was unable to show the court a real need to immediately reinstitute the Muslim ban. As the Attorneys General for Washington and Minnesot... Read More

Advocates and community members announced today a new bill that would amend California's HIV criminalization laws that were enacted during a time of fear and ignorance about HIV and its transmission. SB 239 will make the law more consistent with other laws involving serious, communicable diseases. Read More