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LOS ANGELES — Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his intent to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and in doing so, he has callously reneged on the government’s commitment to hundreds of thousands of American youth.
San Francisco, California — The ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won a decision by the California Supreme Court that the license plate data of millions of law-abiding drivers, collected indiscriminately by police across the state, are not
SACRAMENTO — Today, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Senator Bob Hertzberg and Assemblymember Rob Bonta announced their plan to work together to reform California’s fraught money bail system. The bill cosponsors issued the statement below in response:
Our country’s greatest strengths are the diversity of its people and the principles of equal dignity and inclusion that unite us all. There are troubling events planned in our state in the coming weeks.
In the wake of the release Tuesday of a scathing ACLU SoCal report about inhuman conditions at Orange County jails — including a demand that Sheriff Sandra Hutchens step down from her position — Hutchens announced she is retiring and will not run for reelection when her term ends next year.
LAGUNA BEACH — In an important first step toward reform of Laguna Beach’s harsh, inadequate policies on homelessness, a federal court ruled yesterday that the transportation to the city’s sole shelter is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.