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

SANTA ANA - Today, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California urged Orange County officials to remove fencing around a homeless encampment on the Santa Ana Riverbed immediately. Earlier in the day, the O.C. Department of Public Works erected multiple six-foot, chainlink fences around the Santa Ana

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, a coalition of Los Angeles based civil rights and community groups issued a Public Records Act (PRA) request to Mayor Eric Garcetti seeking transparency about federal grants awarded to the City of Los Angeles totalling $825,000, as part of the Countering Violent Extremism

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) introduced a bill to modernize laws that criminalize and stigmatize people living with HIV. They were joined by bill co-author Assemblymember David Chiu, San Francisco Supervisor Jeff Sheehy