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ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging National Emergency Declaration

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|Date: February 21, 2019
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging National Emergency Declaration

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition (From Press Release) - T ...

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition (From Press Release) - The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club, ACLU of Texas, and ACLU of Northern California ...

February 21, 2019
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Sacramento Police Mislead with Claim of No Arrests at Stephon Clark Protests

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|Date: February 20, 2019
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Sacramento Police Mislead with Claim of No Arrests at Stephon Clark Protests

Court Files Show At Least 14 Arrested By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – City ...

Court Files Show At Least 14 Arrested By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – City police officials here – girding for what is expected to be massive street protests if Sacrament ...

February 20, 2019
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16 States File Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Contrived Declaration of National Emergency at the Southern Border

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|Date: February 19, 2019
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16 States File Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Contrived Declaration of National Emergency at the Southern Border

Fifteen states join California to block Trump’s fabricated emergency and unlawful diversion of Congressio ...

Fifteen states join California to block Trump’s fabricated emergency and unlawful diversion of Congressionally-appropriated funding to pay for his border wall (From Press Release) – California Governo ...

February 19, 2019
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Policing For Profit

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|Date: February 18, 2019
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Policing For Profit

By Emma Anderson and Susan Dunn In Conway, South Carolina, a 72-year-old widow hides inside, her curtains ...

By Emma Anderson and Susan Dunn In Conway, South Carolina, a 72-year-old widow hides inside, her curtains drawn, fearing that local law enforcement will attempt to take away her home for a third time. ...

February 18, 2019
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ACLU Backed Legislation Would Open Prosecutor’s Records

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|Date: February 17, 2019
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ACLU Backed Legislation Would Open Prosecutor’s Records

By Nicole Zayas Fortier America’s locally elected prosecutors wield enormous and, all too often, unaccoun ...

By Nicole Zayas Fortier America’s locally elected prosecutors wield enormous and, all too often, unaccountable power. They have the authority to reinforce mass incarceration and racial disparities in ...

February 17, 2019
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There Is No ‘National Emergency’ at the Border, and Trump’s Declaration Is Illegal

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|Date: February 16, 2019
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There Is No ‘National Emergency’ at the Border, and Trump’s Declaration Is Illegal

By Cecilia Wang After more than a month of threats, a government shutdown, and bipartisan action by Congr ...

By Cecilia Wang After more than a month of threats, a government shutdown, and bipartisan action by Congress, President Trump has finally declared a national emergency to spend billions of taxpayer do ...

February 16, 2019
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The Supreme Court Is Playing Favorites with Religion

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|Date: February 13, 2019
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The Supreme Court Is Playing Favorites with Religion

By Daniel Mach Last week, the Supreme Court permitted the state of Alabama to execute a Muslim man, Domin ...

By Daniel Mach Last week, the Supreme Court permitted the state of Alabama to execute a Muslim man, Domineque Ray, without his religious advisor present. The court’s 5-4 decision reversed an emergency ...

February 13, 2019
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Dozens of Migrant ICE Detainees Announce Hunger Strike to Protest ‘Brutal’ Jail Conditions

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|Date: February 11, 2019
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Dozens of Migrant ICE Detainees Announce Hunger Strike to Protest ‘Brutal’ Jail Conditions

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Immigrant rights organizations called out “b ...

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Immigrant rights organizations called out “brutal” and “inhumane” conditions for migrant ICE detainees in Northern California – and announc ...

February 11, 2019
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When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free

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|Date: February 11, 2019
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When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free

By Emerson Sykes and Vera Eidelman On certain college campuses, administrators have created “Free Speech ...

By Emerson Sykes and Vera Eidelman On certain college campuses, administrators have created “Free Speech Zones” — spaces where people are allowed to speak, protest, or gather signatures for causes the ...

February 11, 2019
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New Bill Limits When California Police Can Use Deadly Force

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|Date: February 09, 2019
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New Bill Limits When California Police Can Use Deadly Force

By Lizzy Buchen As a nation, we must address the brutal reality and deadly consequences of police violenc ...

By Lizzy Buchen As a nation, we must address the brutal reality and deadly consequences of police violence. We have seen far too many people, particularly Black and brown people, killed by police. We ...

February 09, 2019
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Pennsylvania Can’t Be a Model for Reform if We Undermine People’s Rights

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|Date: February 08, 2019
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Pennsylvania Can’t Be a Model for Reform if We Undermine People’s Rights

By Andy Hoover Elected officials and corrections administrators in Pennsylvania have been doing a bit of ...

By Andy Hoover Elected officials and corrections administrators in Pennsylvania have been doing a bit of a victory lap after the recent announcement that our state prison population dropped by 1,000 p ...

February 08, 2019
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Lawmakers Bring Back Bill to Stop Deadly Police Shootings

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|Date: February 07, 2019
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Lawmakers Bring Back Bill to Stop Deadly Police Shootings

Photo courtesy of the LA Times The California Act to Save Lives aligns closely with both California and O ...

Photo courtesy of the LA Times The California Act to Save Lives aligns closely with both California and Obama departments of justice recommendations on police use of force; will update California law ...

February 07, 2019
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Sacramento City Council Committee Shoots Down Proposed Protest Law

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|Date: February 06, 2019
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Sacramento City Council Committee Shoots Down Proposed Protest Law

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several Sacramento City Council members buck ...

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several Sacramento City Council members bucked the wishes of their police department Tuesday – something you don’t see every day – and vote ...

February 06, 2019
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Vanguard Sues West Sacramento for Release of Galvan Police Records

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|Date: February 04, 2019
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Vanguard Sues West Sacramento for Release of Galvan Police Records

A 2011 Press Conference showed a poster with the extent of Ernesto Galvan's injury In the early morning h ...

A 2011 Press Conference showed a poster with the extent of Ernesto Galvan's injury In the early morning hours of June 14, 2005, officers from the West Sacramento Police Department spotted two individu ...

February 04, 2019
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ICE Partners Again with a Sheriff It Once Severed Ties with Because of Racial Profiling

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|Date: February 03, 2019
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ICE Partners Again with a Sheriff It Once Severed Ties with Because of Racial Profiling

By Alissa Ellis Whether it’s Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, or Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Trump administrati ...

By Alissa Ellis Whether it’s Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, or Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Trump administration has a real knack for empowering and absolving people who push discriminatory law enforcement ...

February 03, 2019
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ACLU-NC Calls on DA’s to Comply with Law and Reject Treating Children as Adults

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|Date: February 02, 2019
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ACLU-NC Calls on DA’s to Comply with Law and Reject Treating Children as Adults

(From Press Release) - Before 1995, the state of California considered young people under the age of 16 a ...

(From Press Release) - Before 1995, the state of California considered young people under the age of 16 as children by law. With the advent of the “tough on crime” era of the late 1990s, the law chang ...

February 02, 2019
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Black Lives Matter Sacramento Activists Sue Sheriff after He Bans Them from Social Media Pages

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|Date: February 01, 2019
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Black Lives Matter Sacramento Activists Sue Sheriff after He Bans Them from Social Media Pages

Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Now, Preside ...

Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Now, President Donald Trump and Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones have more in common – both have been sued fo ...

February 01, 2019
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Skepticism Over DOJ Report on Use-of-Force Policies of Sacramento Police

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|Date: January 31, 2019
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Skepticism Over DOJ Report on Use-of-Force Policies of Sacramento Police

Photo courtesy of the LA Times By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A CA Dept. of Ju ...

Photo courtesy of the LA Times By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A CA Dept. of Justice report released this week on use of force policies within the Sacramento Police Dept. – d ...

January 31, 2019
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Racial Profiling Report of LAPD Prompts Audit and Questions about Policing Tactics

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|Date: January 29, 2019
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Racial Profiling Report of LAPD Prompts Audit and Questions about Policing Tactics

Times are changing, as once upon a time a report like the one last week in the LA Times about an elite LA ...

Times are changing, as once upon a time a report like the one last week in the LA Times about an elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopping black motorists would have resulted in a shrug. Instead, on ...

January 29, 2019
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Man Arrested For CHWB: Come Home While Black

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|Date: January 26, 2019
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Man Arrested For CHWB: Come Home While Black

(From Press Release) - A person of color who was prosecuted after he was barred entry to his own apartmen ...

(From Press Release) - A person of color who was prosecuted after he was barred entry to his own apartment building by a security guard that didn’t believe that he lived there has been acquitted of al ...

January 26, 2019
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