Sacramento, CA — Today, the California Senate passed landmark legislation to strengthen the law on police use of force and reduce the number of deadly police shootings in the state. Assembly Bill 392: The California Act to Save Lives, introduced by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), will

SANTA ANA — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP today filed an appeal to a court ruling on its lawsuit against Orange County's District Attorney and Sheriff, whose departments conducted a secret jailhouse info

LOS ANGELES — Deportation proceedings against construction worker Jonathan Mondragon, who was pulled over and arrested by Border Patrol officers in 2017, have been dismissed by the Immigration Court in Los Angeles. The court agreed with a motion filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union

BAKERSFIELD — Farm worker, student, and activist Jose Bello read a poem he wrote, "Dear America," before the Kern County Board of Supervisors in May. It protested actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

RIVERSIDE — The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California won a preliminary injunction that blocks a plan by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from transferring jailed immigrants in Orange County to facilities outside of Southern California if they are represented by

LOS ANGELES — In a landmark resolution today, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted to end the district’s mandatory, daily random searches of students. The vote was a victory for the Students Not Suspects coalition that had long fought the policy that unfairly targeted

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California released a white paper today revealing first-of-its-kind data around Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s record as it relates to the death penalty. DA Lacey was first elected to her seat in December

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education will vote on a resolution to end the daily, random searches that unfairly criminalize students, and have been shown to be ineffective, intrusive, and excessive. A coalition, Students Not Suspects, has been urging

LOS ANGELES — In a major decision over storm trooper-style tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal court today ruled that ICE agents violated the Constitution in their raid on a Van Nuys factory. ICE had warrants for fewer than 10 people working at Micro Solutions Enterprise