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Sep 09, 2010
California ACLU Affiliates Sue State of California Over Public School Academic Fees Charged to Children
The California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the State of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today for allowing school districts throughout the state to charge fees for books and other essential educational supplies. This practice violates the California Constitution which, since 1879, has guaranteed children a free education.
By ACLU of Southern California
Sep 01, 2010
You Can't Leapfrog the Law if You Want to Execute People in Its Name
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 31, 2010
Suit Charges LA-Area Federal Contractor with Exploitation and Discrimination of Immigrant Workers
LOS ANGELES — On the eve of Labor Day, the ACLU of Southern California and the law firm of Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson & Renick, LLP today filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court against Terra Universal, Inc., charging the multi-million dollar federal government contractor with violations of federal wage and hour laws for requiring employees to work long hours without overtime pay and systematically discriminating against Latino workers based on their race and immigration status.
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 31, 2010
ACLU Sues Federal Contractor for Exploiting Immigrant Workforce
Jennie Pasquarella is a staff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California.
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 26, 2010
Don't Let the Military's Deadly "Pain Ray" Machine Invade the L.A. County Jail
Los Angeles County Jail has just installed an Assault Intervention Device ''' an invisible microwave-beam weapon originally developed by the military ''' as a way to subdue inmates by focusing a microwave beam on them to make them feel "intolerable heat."
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 26, 2010
ACLU/SC Calls On Los Angeles County Sheriff To Abandon Plan To Use Weapon-Like 'Military Assault Device' on Jail Inmates
LOS ANGELES – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California today sent a letter to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca demanding that he not employ against prisoners at the Los Angeles County jails a high-technology device employing heat rays, built for military use.
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 18, 2010
We Demand the Truth About Proxy Detention of Naji Hamdan
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 18, 2010
ACLU/SC Suit Seeks Information on U.S. 'Proxy Detention' of American Citizen in the U.A.E.
LOS ANGELES – Seeking to uncover information about the U.S. government’s 2008 overseas “proxy detention” of American citizen Naji Hamdan, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed a lawsuit in federal district court here today. The suit asks the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and other intelligence agencies to turn over records about their surveillance of Mr. Hamdan in the United States, and their involvement in his detention and torture in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.
By ACLU of Southern California
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