ACLU Lawsuit in SC Case Where Girl Was Thrown By Officer
By Robin Shulman One day last fall, Niya Kenny was sitting in her math class at Spring…
By Robin Shulman One day last fall, Niya Kenny was sitting in her math class at Spring…
(from Press Release) – On August 4, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit…
By Matthew Segal Something is missing from the debate over police reform. Though police killings of black…
By Mike Brickner Attorney Andrea Burton didn’t walk into a local Youngstown courtroom with a large banner…
By Kanya Bennett This week, we continued to mourn the loss of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and…
By Irene Rojas-Carroll This week, Fresno police released the body camera footage of the shooting of Dylan…
by Jana Kooren Philando Castile should still be alive. Mr. Phil (as he was known at school)…
By Jason D. Williamson Last summer, in the wake of the arrest and tragic death of Sandra…
Here we go again. When 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot and killed by officers…
By Leslie Fulbright and Charlie Fredrick Update: Several SF Pride Grand Marshals and awardees, including Janetta Johnson, Black…
by Margaret Dooley-Sammuli California voters will be asked to legalize marijuana in November – and we couldn’t…
(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 Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory…
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…
By Kanya Bennett One year ago, the White House released The Final Report of the President’s Task…
By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Did you know that in 2014 police took more property from people in the…
By Linda Lye and Ana Zamora On Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation…
By Chase Strangio Over the course of the past few weeks, we have witnessed an escalation of…