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Two Bay Area fathers who have been detained for over six months at the Contra Costa West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California sued the federal government today in a class action lawsuit challenging their unlawful and prolonged detention. Read More

Report offers parents, students, and the community tips on how to review district LCAPs, engage in the process, and offer input to ensure the money is properly spent. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California joins Sacramento community members in their outrage around the killing of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by Sacramento police on Sunday. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California signed on to a letter to Greyhound Lines Inc. asking the bus company to end warrantless immigration raids by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Read More

The ACLU Foundations of California, with invaluable contributions from the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), partners from the labor movement and others, today launched the Community Justice Platform. Read More

Download the Spring 2018 ACLU of Northern California Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. Read More

Ahead of planned student walkouts this month, the ACLU of California has advised school officials across the state to adhere to constitutional and state laws protecting students who are expressing themselves politically. Read More

Nine people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and five United States citizen children of TPS holders today filed a lawsuit against the federal government to stop the unlawful termination of TPS for more than 200,000 people living in the U.S. and to protect the tens of thousands of U.S. citizen children whose parents would be forced to leave under the administration’s policy. Read More

The federal government’s policies on searching the phones, laptops, and tablets of domestic air passengers remain shrouded in secrecy. Read More

The following statement can be attributed to Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrants’ rights for the ACLU of California, in regards to the Trump administration's lawsuit against the State of California over its recently enacted laws: Senate Bill 54 (the California Values Act), Assembly Bill 450 (the Immigrant Worker Protection Act), and Assembly Bill 103.This lawsuit is just the Trump admi... Read More

San Francisco, CA — A San Francisco judge has held that California elections officials must notify voters before rejecting their mail-in ballots over signature concerns.State law was allowing elections officials — who may not be handwriting experts — to reject vote-by-mail ballots if they felt the signature on the ballot envelope didn’t match the signature on file for the voter, without givin... Read More

Increased ICE activity has been reported throughout the Bay Area, the Central Coast, and in the Central Valley. Local rapid response hotlines have confirmed that ICE has arrested at least 37 people over the past few days in cities including Monterey, Oakland, Fresno, Napa, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Clara, and Salinas.Contrary to statements provided by ICE, agents are aggressively intimidati... Read More