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ACLU Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Humanitarian Activists Targeted by Trump Officials

LOS ANGELES — Humanitarian activists on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who provided aid to migrants were widely lauded for their service. But to the Trump administration, they were an enemy that had to be stopped. In March, it was revealed that the federal government operated a covert surveil

July 23, 2019

Court Rejects ACLU Bid to Release Rights Activist Jose Bello

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal court judge in San Francisco rejected a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California regarding farm worker and college student Jose Bello, now imprisoned at Mesa Verde detention center in Bakersfield. Bello was arrest

July 18, 2019

Court Hearing for Man Arrested by ICE Shortly After Reciting Anti-ICE Poem

SAN FRANCISCO — A hearing on the ACLU lawsuit regarding Jose Bello, a Bakersfield man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shortly after publicly reciting a poem critical of ICE, will be held Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit argues that Bello's

July 12, 2019

ACLU Files Preemptive Lawsuit to Protect Refugees from Massive Trump ICE Raids

NEW YORK — In anticipation of the Trump administration's threatened mass arrest of thousands of families and children, four immigration legal aid nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit today to protect those refugees.

July 11, 2019

California Set to Pass Landmark Legislation to Save Lives, Reduce the Number of Police Shootings

Sacramento, CA — Today, the California Senate passed landmark legislation to strengthen the law on police use of force and reduce the number of deadly police shootings in the state. Assembly Bill 392: The California Act to Save Lives, introduced by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), will

July 8, 2019

ACLU Back in Court to Challenge Orange County Jailhouse Informant Program

SANTA ANA — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP today filed an appeal to a court ruling on its lawsuit against Orange County's District Attorney and Sheriff, whose departments conducted a secret jailhouse info

July 1, 2019