RIVERSIDE — On May 17, auto mechanic Eludio Sanchez was speaking to his wife by cell phone when he was pulled over by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents and arrested. His family has not heard from his since. They likely wouldn't have even known he had been stopped if he hadn't been on the phone

SANTA ANA — A rally calling for transparency and accountability for deaths in Orange County jails will be held Friday, May 31, outside the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) headquarters. The rally comes after the most recent death in OCSD custody — on May 14, Anthony Aceves was found in his

SACRAMENTO — Today, the California Assembly voted to pass Assembly Bill 392: The California Act to Save Lives, critical legislation that will change the use of force standard in California to a "necessary" standard to reduce the number of police shootings. If passed and signed into law, AB 392 will

LOS ANGELES — Emmanuel Flores has been working as a cashier at a McDonald's in the San Gabriel Valley since 2015 and was told by a supervisor that he was one of the most valuable employees. He worked close to 40 hours a week.

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California will honor at its annual awards luncheon five men who as teenagers were wrongly accused of the rape of a jogger in Central Park in New York in 1989. These men endured years of racially and politically charged betrayals by the

BAKERSFIELD — Robert Mitchell, a Black man, refused to answer questions from Bakersfield Police Department officers when they stopped the car he was riding in on the pretense that air fresheners were hanging from the rear-view mirror. Mitchell knew he was well within his rights not to answer. Still

LOS ANGELES – Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on C.J.L.G. v. Whitaker, a lawsuit that addresses whether immigrant children facing deportation should have the right to a court-appointed attorney. The court found that our client, known as C.J., did not receive a fair hearing.

SANTA ANA — Immigrants jailed by the federal government while their deportation cases remain ongoing, sometimes for years, have two vital links to the outside world — their families and their attorneys — both of which are crucial to build cases that can lead to asylum or other legal status. But U.S.