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In the 2010 Citizens United decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that independent political expenditures by corporations and unions are protected speech. Citizens United became a flashpoint because Americans are increasingly concerned about the impact of economic inequality on our political system. Read More

Today Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 2466 (Weber, D-San Diego), rolling back a discriminatory voting restriction in California that is a carryover from the Jim Crow era, when states made it harder for black citizens and other minorities to register and vote. Read More

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