Please attribute the following statement to Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel and Manheim Family attorney for First Amendment Rights at the ACLU of Southern California, on the jury’s verdict in the federal trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who was convicted on three felonies of

LOS ANGELES — The ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the law firm of Bird Marella filed a friend of the court brief on Friday supporting the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's efforts to make information about past misconduct of its deputies more available. This brief, filed last week

SANTA ANA – Yesterday, Orange County officials reached a settlement agreement with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California on behalf of homeless individuals entrapped in the Santa Ana Riverbed. The county has agreed to provide adequate notice, access, storage and transportation to individuals