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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has condemned the practice of racial profiling and agreed to promptly revise its anti-bias instruction to officers, expand diversity training and develop community outreach programs as part of a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

The ACLU of Southern California has 3,000 square feet of office space available at its headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, convenient to downtown courthouses, Staples Center and LA Live, and the 110 freeway. The space is divisible to 250 square feet and is ideally set up for a small law practice, labor organization or nonprofit. On-duty guard service and security cameras, 24-hour building and elevator key-card access. For lease rate and contact information, please download a pdf of our flyer.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The ACLU of Southern California has strongly urged Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to revise the department’s inadequate Taser policy in order to restrict and guide future use of these potentially lethal weapons.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Lawyers for a United States citizen who was illegally deported to Mexico are calling for the Obama administration to carefully review immigration procedures to ensure that no U.S. citizen is illegally deported again.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Los Angeles Police Department has provided a disappointing and inadequate response to a report that found racially biased policing in its ranks, a coalition of community groups told the Los Angeles Police Commission today.

On November 5, 2008, the day after Proposition 8 was approved by voters, the California ACLU affiliates joined with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and the law offices of David C. Codell, Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe to file suit in the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8.

San Francisco'The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Lambda Legal filed a reply brief on Jan. 5 in the California Supreme Court, the next step in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 8, which passed by a mere 52 percent on Nov. 4.