News & Commentary
Nov 01, 2024
Our mission endures
A message of hope and gratitude from our outgoing and longtime leader Hector Villagra.
By Hector Villagra
Oct 23, 2024
Vote No on 36: Setting Critical Services Ablaze Will Not Keep Us Safe
The solution to houselessness, addiction, and theft is not returning to a failed mass incarceration experiment but serving our communities with resources and support.
By Jess Farris
Oct 22, 2024
UCLA suppressed student and faculty freedom of speech. So, we sued them.
Following the violent destruction of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the UCLA campus, students and faculty members speak out.
By Benjamin Kersten, Mohammad Tajsar, Salih Can Açıksöz, Graeme Blair
Sep 30, 2024
A Right to Dignity: Protecting the Rights of All Unhoused Individuals
A year after filing a lawsuit against the City of San Bernardino, unhoused plaintiffs reached an agreement in a major win for people with disabilities.
By Kath Rogers, Eve Garrow
Sep 27, 2024
Our Right to Speak Out
The ACLU SoCal’s history on the freedom to protest.
By Veronica Valdes-Perez
Jun 24, 2024
Trans futures are worth fighting for
The ACLU SoCal marched at the L.A. Pride Parade under the theme “fight for trans futures.”
By Rocío Ortega
May 01, 2024
Open Letter to UCLA to Protect Rights of Student Protesters
In response to acts of mob violence on UCLA’s campus last night, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California sent a letter to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block denouncing efforts to suppress the peaceful right to free expression and dissent.
By Peter Eliasberg, Mohammad Tajsar
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