State Auditor Finds Serious Problem with California Gang Database
For years, we have questioned the California Gang Datadase, known as CalGang, in terms of the lack…
For years, we have questioned the California Gang Datadase, known as CalGang, in terms of the lack…
The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people…
By Jeff Adachi Setting policy is a lot like making sausage: We want to see the cleanly…
(ACLU Press Release) – New data analyses conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance and ACLU of California…
State budget proposal includes funding to lend families living in deep poverty a helping hand (From Press…
By Sean Raycraft A few months ago, a special session of the California state legislature was called…
It is ironic that a bill meant to promote police transparency was itself killed by a single…
Back in April, SB 1286, sponsored by Senator Mark Leno, passed its first legislative hurdle as the…
Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in the…
By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Did you know that in 2014 police took more property from people in the…
In an effort to improve transparency, accountability and trust between law enforcement and the public, Senator Mark…
By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention…
By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacramento office:…
by Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald Assembly Bill 30, sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) was signed by Governor…
On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015,…
by Nicole A. Ozer It was a really good week in California for privacy rights. The legislature…
(From ACLU Press Release) – With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California is…
by Anupam Chander My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their…
It sounds like something we would have come up with a joke in college. Just as Jonathan…
In the wake of Ferguson, we have had a nationwide discussion on issues focusing on police accountability…