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ICE withholds medical care from the immigrants it detains. Read More

ICE uses solitary confinement to retaliate against "trouble makers." Read More

For the third time in five years, California rejected a bill that would have greenlit government use of facial recognition across the state.  Read More

A new report, Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: A Year in California Immigration Detention, analyzes hundreds of complaints filed by detained people through Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) grievance system. Read More

Our new report corroborates what people detained immigrant have been saying for years: ICE is committing widespread human rights violations across its immigration detention facilities in California. Read More

California’s immigration detention facilities are plagued by severe and ongoing human rights abuse. Read More

San Francisco residents are grappling with important civil liberties issues that will be impacted by the voters' choice of mayor in the November 2024 election. The ACLU of Northern California sent a questionnaire to every candidate for mayor of San Francisco who qualified to appear on the ballot. Our goal is to inform you about their position on pressing civil liberties issues impacting the city. Read More

Christine Hong, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Laaila, an undergraduate in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Environmental Studies, offer their firsthand accounts of the protests and their aftermath at UC Santa Cruz. Read More

Today, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh filed a lawsuit against the University of California Santa Cruz for banning more than 100 students and faculty members from campus after they were arrested at a pro-Palestine protest this past May. Read More

In May 2024, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) banned over 110 students and faculty from campus after their arrest at a pro-Palestine protest. The bans went into effect immediately and cut off students and faculty from classes, jobs, and other school resources, such as meal plans, health care, and housing. Read More