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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
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
LOS ANGELES — Deportation proceedings against construction worker Jonathan Mondragon, who was pulled over and arrested by Border Patrol officers in 2017, have been dismissed by the Immigration Court in Los Angeles. The court agreed with a motion filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union
BAKERSFIELD — Farm worker, student, and activist Jose Bello read a poem he wrote, "Dear America," before the Kern County Board of Supervisors in May. It protested actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
RIVERSIDE — The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California won a preliminary injunction that blocks a plan by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from transferring jailed immigrants in Orange County to facilities outside of Southern California if they are represented by
LOS ANGELES — In a landmark resolution today, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted to end the district’s mandatory, daily random searches of students. The vote was a victory for the Students Not Suspects coalition that had long fought the policy that unfairly targeted