LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today approved settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by immigrants who were unlawfully detained by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — sometimes for months — because of “ICE hold” requests from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California endorses Yes on Propositions 15, 16, 17, 18, and 21 and No on Propositions 19, 20, 22, 24, and 25 for the election on November 3, 2020. The ACLU SoCal also endorses Yes on Measure J on the ballot in Los Angles County.

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California will hold its annual Bill of Rights Awards Gala on Sunday, October 4 at 7 p.m., hosted by Emmy-, Tony-, and Grammy-winning performer and activist Billy Porter.

LOS ANGELES — According to government documents revealed yesterday, there has been a major outbreak of COVID-19 at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

In a 2-1 decision today, a three-judge Panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Trump administration’s effort to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of approximately 300,000 people who have lived here lawfully, many of them for decades. 

LOS ANGELES — A coalition of civil rights, human rights and labor organizations today celebrate Supervisor Hilda Solis and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ approval of a motion to end transfers of people in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) to immigration

BAKERSFIELD — In the battle over the establishment of a proposed 1,400-bed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in the city of McFarland in Kern County, hundreds of protesters showed up at meetings and rallies to make their opposition known.

SAN FRANCISCO — In an emergency order late yesterday, federal District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to test all people detained and all staff at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center for COVID-19. Chhabria emphasized the urgency of a situation

LOS ANGELES — In a shocking discovery, it has been found that although about 1,900 COVID-19 test kits were sent to the immigrant detention center in Adelanto, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials refused to allow the vast majority of them to be used. The refusal to give tests to