Press Releases

Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice Grants $1 Million to the Defense of LGBTQ Rights and Reproductive Justice in California

LOS ANGELES — Today, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) announced the establishment of the Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender and Reproductive Justice Project. This position will be funded by a five-year, $1 million grant from the Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights

Bill to Address Secret and Unregulated Use of Jailhouse Informants Passes Out of Committee

Justice Advocates in Support of Bill Highlight the Rights of the Accused and Victims, and that the Integrity of State’s Criminal Justice System Are at Stake

ACLU SoCal Statement on Jury Verdict in Trial of Former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca

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