News & Commentary
Apr 05, 2010
James Gilliam Is Named Deputy Executive Director of the ACLU/SC
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – James Gilliam, an award-winning attorney who has extensive experience working pro bono on a wide variety of civil rights, immigration, homelessness and LGBT issues, has been named deputy executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston announced today.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 31, 2010
Immigration Officials Announce Release of Detainees with Mental Disabilities Who Were Lost in Detention for Years
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Five days after a team of civil rights lawyers filed lawsuits on behalf of two immigrants with mental disabilities who were locked up for years after being judged mentally incompetent to understand the proceedings against them, federal officials announced the two men would be released from custody.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 26, 2010
Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Lost in Detention for Years
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – For five years, two men with mental disabilities have languished in immigration detention, effectively lost in a system that has no established procedures to determine whether they should be released or whether their cases should be resolved in another way.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 22, 2010
ACLU/SC Urges LAPD to Examine Policies After Officers Fatally Shoot Autistic Man
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The ACLU of Southern California is disturbed by recent reports that two LAPD gang officers fatally shot an unarmed, 27-year-old autistic man in Koreatown on March 20th.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 16, 2010
ACLU/SC Sues Veterans Administration for Denying Free Speech Rights to Veteran
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the Veterans Administration today for denying a 67-year-old Army veteran his free-speech right to protest the agency’s failure to use part of its property in west Los Angeles for the benefit and care of veterans, particularly those who are homeless.
By ACLU of Southern California
Mar 02, 2010
Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder
The Supreme Court heard argument earlier this week in Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder, an extremely important First Amendment case involving the criminal prohibition on so-called "material support" to designated terrorist organizations.
By Ahilan Arulanantham
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