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In response to Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order for California state officials to begin displacing unhoused people, the ACLU affiliates in California jointly issued the following statement:
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go. This decision goes against longstanding Supreme Court precedent that it is cruel and unusual to criminalize a person’s status.
California Must Improve Oversight Process of School Districts
Thursday, July 18 at Los Angeles Center Studios in DTLA
The civil rights titan was on board of SoCal ACLU affiliate for decades
Order vacates practice of unconstitutional home arrests