News & Commentary
May 28, 2015
Soaring caseloads, flat funding crush dependency system
Imagine having the moral and legal responsibility to represent over 500 individual children in complex legal proceedings and protect their best interests. These are the impossible circumstances that currently face dependency attorneys in California, as documented in “System on the Brink,” a white paper issued today by the ACLU of California.
By Michael Kaufman
May 21, 2015
In California, you have the right not to show your ID to law enforcement ... in most cases
Many officers think they can legally arrest you for refusing to show your identification. Many times they are wrong.
May 17, 2015
When cops are immune from law enforcement
This post was originally published in the Sacramento Bee
May 12, 2015
Hollywood employers don't get a free pass to violate civil rights law
By Melissa Goodman and Ariela Migdal
By Melissa Goodman
May 03, 2015
Protect bystanders’ videos of police encounters
In the unrelenting stream of videos showing violent police encounters with citizens, none has carried more sheer power to stun the public than the shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. Officer Michael Slager initially said Scott wrestled with him and tried to take his Taser. But the video told a disturbingly different story as it captured Slager firing eight times at a fleeing Scott, hitting him five times in the back. Slager was promptly charged with murder once the bystander video surfaced.R
By Hector Villagra
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