The California Attorney General’s Office has reached a settlement with the Sacramento City Unified School District after an investigation found evidence of unlawful enrollment practices that disadvantaged minority students.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Davis, California to honor Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE officer, and protest the violence and killings by ICE officers, while also honoring the 32 people who have died in ICE custody in 2025.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles challenging its plan to seize and destroy RV homes, alleging it is in violation of state law and the city is criminalizing homelessness.
A coalition of immigrant advocates is urging New York lawmakers to pass the Access to Representation Act and the Building Up Immigrant Legal Defense Act, and to increase state funding for immigration legal services, in order to provide legal counsel to immigrants facing deportation and to protect due process.
The Brennan Center for Justice released its January edition of State Court Report, identifying several state Supreme Court cases scheduled for oral arguments this month that address major constitutional and civil rights issues across the country.
The City of Davis and the Human Relations Commission will host the 32nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on January 19th, featuring speakers, musical performances, an art exhibit, and a march to promote democracy, freedom of speech, and unity.
ICE agents have been engaging in aggressive enforcement actions with little accountability, using tactics such as seizing people off the street, breaking into vehicles, and using tear gas and pepper spray against nonviolent protesters, while Supreme Court decisions have limited the ability of individuals to sue for damages and provided little recourse for those harmed by ICE.
The Trump administration made more than 3,000 arrests in Colorado, a figure more than four times the number recorded during the same period in the final year of the Biden administration, according to data compiled by Sentinel.
Immigrant rights advocates filed an emergency motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging Virginia’s in-state tuition law for immigrant students after state officials agreed to invalidate the statute without mounting a defense, potentially affecting the educational futures of thousands of students.
Pauli Murray was an influential civil rights strategist, legal scholar, and Episcopal priest who challenged traditional notions of gender and race, and whose work laid the groundwork for modern gender equality and civil rights legislation.
A federal judge has ruled that California laws and policies designed to protect LGBTQ+ public school students from being forcibly outed to their families violate the U.S. Constitution, potentially placing transgender and gender-nonconforming students at increased risk while an appeal proceeds.
The ACLU of Arizona is opposing Maricopa County’s motion to end federal court oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, arguing that the agency has not fully complied with reforms ordered after findings of racially discriminatory policing.
The Wren Collective has identified 10 significant attacks on democracy and civil rights in the US in 2025, including mass deportation, increased use of the death penalty, dismantling of civil rights enforcement, and attacks on health care, academic freedom, and press freedom.
The Wren Collective has released a year-end recap of its Democracy Under Attack newsletter, highlighting the 10 worst excesses of the Trump administration’s power over the past year, including the use of a secret police force, the aggressive pursuit of the death penalty, the withdrawal of the Department of Justice from civil rights enforcement, the mobilization of the National Guard, the control of academic freedom, the attack on journalism, the criminalization of reproductive and transgender health care, the attack on entertainers, the use of government-run accounts as internet trolls, and the slashing of public safety investments.
Seven people detained at a California immigration detention center have filed a lawsuit against ICE, citing inadequate medical care, denial of access to counsel, and punitive conditions, including solitary confinement and neglect of people with disabilities.
Immigrants in Alabama face harsher punishments for the same crimes as citizens, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants, according to a ProPublica review of over 100 court cases.
Federal attorneys argue that President Donald Trump’s continued federal control of California National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles remains lawful due to an alleged ongoing “danger of rebellion,” despite California’s insistence that the deployment violates constitutional limits on presidential power and undermines state authority over its Guard.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to California’s civil rights law brought by a Bakersfield bakery, leaving intact a state appellate court decision that reinforced protections for same-sex couples seeking equal service at businesses open to the public.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom have launched a new online portal allowing members of the public to upload photos and videos of suspected unlawful activity by federal agents, in an effort to protect the rights and safety of Californians.
A federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration from arresting immigrants in Washington, D.C. without a warrant or probable cause, following a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and CASA.