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AB 2466 clarifies existing California law on voter eligibility and guarantees a more inclusive and participatory electorate. Read More

Today, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 813, a measure that provides innocent individuals and noncitizens with the opportunity to challenge legally invalid convictions after they have served their time. Read More

Gov. Brown signed a groundbreaking bill to limit civil asset forfeiture abuse in California, marking a victory for the larger asset forfeiture reform movement underway throughout the US. California lawmakers overwhelmingly approved SB 443 in October. The new law will go into effect Jan. 1, 2017. Read More

Currently, California law enforcement agencies can keep seized assets regardless of whether a suspect is convicted of a crime. Senate Bill 443 will rein in the abuse by closing this loophole in federal law. Read More

California now has some of the strongest protections against policing for profit in the country. Although we had several legislative successes this year, two important, ACLU-sponsored bills died in the Legislature. Read More

AB 302 requires high schools to provide students with access to a private, secure room to breastfeed or pump, to store expressed milk, and to provide these students with reasonable break time to accommodate their lactation schedule. Read More

The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters.We are pleased that after we reported our findings to the companies, Instagram cut off Geofeedia’s access to public user posts, a... Read More

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re flashing back to 2013, a year that marked both a big win and a big loss for the ACLU and the breast cancer movement. Read More

Californians have the opportunity to greatly impact our civil liberties at the ballot box. Stand for justice, and cast your vote accordingly on the following California propositions and local measures. Read More

Dear Attorney General Harris: On your watch as California’s top cop, law enforcement agencies up and down the state have been secretly using social media surveillance software that has been marketed to monitor protests and activists of color. Read More