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A breakthrough agreement between the ACLU/SC and top L.A. leaders will create 1,250 new permanent low-income housing units for the city. ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston said it offers "real hope" for an end to homelessness in L.A.

A breakthrough agreement between the ACLU/SC and top L.A. leaders will create 1,250 new permanent low-income housing units for the city. ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston said it offers "real hope" for an end to homelessness in L.A.

The following statement by ACLU of Southern California staff attorney Peter Bibring is in response to the L.A. Police Department's investigation into excessive use of force at MacArthur Park on May 1. The results of the investigation were presented at a special meeting of the L.A. Police Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 9:

The ACLU/SC and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olsen have discovered urgent new information about the extent of forcible drugging of immigrants by the Department of Homeland Security and the policies that govern it. The information is detailed in legal papers being filed Tuesday, October 9, that seek an immediate stop to the government's program of drugging immigrants with powerful anti-psychotic medicine against their will and without proper medical oversight.

LOS ANGELES - In a breakthrough ruling that affects more than 25,000 California children suffering from serious mental illness, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz has ordered an expert to oversee the expansion of home- and community-based mental health services for children who would otherwise end up in costly group homes and institutions.