RIVERSIDE — The Youth Accountability Team (YAT) program was created in 2001 in Riverside County to target at-risk youths for intervention. But YAT treats children who have not been convicted of crimes like hardened criminals with surprise searches, unannounced home visitations, strict restrictions

LOS ANGELES — The City of Los Angeles is set to receive a $425,000 grant from the federal Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program supposedly aimed at building community resistance to extremism. But under the Trump administration, the secretive CVE program poses a dangerous threat to the civil rig

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge late tonight ordered the reunification of thousands of parents and children forcibly separated by the Trump administration. The American Civil Liberties Union sought the nationwide preliminary injunction to halt the practice and immediately reunite all the separated famil

LOS ANGELES — In a major victory over a Trump administration detention policy, immigration detainees held at the prison complex in Victorville, California will now be allowed contact with attorneys in person and by phone.

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration is incarcerating hundreds of civil immigration detainees incommunicado at prison complex in Victorville, California complex. For the past week, the detainees have been all denied all access to attorneys, including pro bono lawyers who wanted to give them legal

LOS ANGELES — Seven Muslim women ejected from an Urth Caffe restaurant by its management have obtained a settlement agreement requiring the restaurant chain to hold diversity trainings for its employees and update its policies. The group of women, represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern Calif