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ORANGE, Calif. --The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has filed suit in U.S. District Court against the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to protect the free-speech and religion rights of those who feed the poor.

The U.S. says it will stop forcibly drugging immigrants during deportations, nearly seven months after the ACLU of Southern California and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP revealed shocking details about two immigrants who were given powerful anti-psychotic drugs against their will.

The ACLU is representing a Muslim woman forced to bare her head by San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies in violation of her religious beliefs.

The Los Angeles Police Department has dropped its plan to map L.A.'s Muslim community as part of its counter-terrorism strategy.

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Deborah H. Karpatkin and the ACLU of Southern California today filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a 26-year-old Army specialist being kept in the Army against his Buddhist-Taoist beliefs. The suit seeks to have the man, who enlisted only after being promised that military duties would not conflict with his religious beliefs, discharged as a conscientious objector.

LOS ANGELES - More than a year ago leading Muslim Americans requested basic information about FBI surveillance in Southern California, seeking to calm community fears of spying at mosques and surveillance of community groups and community leaders. To date, the government has turned over only four pages of documents.