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Marijuana Infractions Unevenly Enforced Against People of Color in California

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|Date: June 12, 2016
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Marijuana Infractions Unevenly Enforced Against People of Color in California

(ACLU Press Release) - New data analyses conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance and ACLU of California fin ...

(ACLU Press Release) - New data analyses conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance and ACLU of California find that racial disparities in marijuana policing have persisted, following the reduction of low- ...

June 12, 2016
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California Moves to Repeal Maximum Family Grant Rule

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|Date: June 10, 2016
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California Moves to Repeal Maximum Family Grant Rule

State budget proposal includes funding to lend families living in deep poverty a helping hand (From Press ...

State budget proposal includes funding to lend families living in deep poverty a helping hand (From Press Release) - After years of tireless work to see one of California’s most discriminatory laws re ...

June 10, 2016
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State Assembly Votes To Uphold Institutional Racism in the Labor Code

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|Date: June 06, 2016
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State Assembly Votes To Uphold Institutional Racism in the Labor Code

By Sean Raycraft A few months ago, a special session of the California state legislature was called for M ...

By Sean Raycraft A few months ago, a special session of the California state legislature was called for March 31, 2016 for two very special reasons. One, to pass a historic piece of legislation, a 15 ...

June 06, 2016
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My View: One Senator Able To Kill Police Transparency Bill

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|Date: May 28, 2016
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My View: One Senator Able To Kill Police Transparency Bill

It is ironic that a bill meant to promote police transparency was itself killed by a single Senator in a ...

It is ironic that a bill meant to promote police transparency was itself killed by a single Senator in a most non-transparent process. Senator Ricardo Lara is the chair of the appropriations committe ...

May 28, 2016
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Commentary: SB 1286 Would Provide Transparency to Police Complaints

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|Date: May 26, 2016
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Commentary: SB 1286 Would Provide Transparency to Police Complaints

Back in April, SB 1286, sponsored by Senator Mark Leno, passed its first legislative hurdle as the Senate ...

Back in April, SB 1286, sponsored by Senator Mark Leno, passed its first legislative hurdle as the Senate’s Public Safety Committee voted 5-1 to advance the legislation. California lags behind the re ...

May 26, 2016
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

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|Date: May 24, 2016
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in ...

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in the US judicial system, with more than 1.5 million drug arrests in the U.S. in 2014, 80 percen ...

May 24, 2016
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ACLU Report: Asset Forfeiture Takes Wealth from Communities of Color

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|Date: May 20, 2016
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ACLU Report: Asset Forfeiture Takes Wealth from Communities of Color

By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Did you know that in 2014 police took more property from people in the U.S. th ...

By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Did you know that in 2014 police took more property from people in the U.S. than burglars did? Frightening, but absolutely legal. Police are allowed to take your money and p ...

May 20, 2016
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Legislation Would Allow Access to Police Misconduct Records

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|Date: February 21, 2016
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Legislation Would Allow Access to Police Misconduct Records

In an effort to improve transparency, accountability and trust between law enforcement and the public, Se ...

In an effort to improve transparency, accountability and trust between law enforcement and the public, Senator Mark Leno has introduced SB 1286, a bill allowing greater public access to peace officer ...

February 21, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

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|Date: January 23, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a criti ...

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a critical dimension to economic inequality in California: racial inequality. People of color are uniq ...

January 23, 2016
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ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

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|Date: October 14, 2015
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ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacrame ...

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacramento office: the ACLU of California Center for Advocacy & Policy. One year ago, we had a sta ...

October 14, 2015
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California Becomes First State To Ban “Redskins” as School Mascot or Team Name

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 12, 2015
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California Becomes First State To Ban “Redskins” as School Mascot or Team Name

by Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald Assembly Bill 30, sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Sal ...

by Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald Assembly Bill 30, sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) was signed by Governor Brown yesterday and goes into effect January 1, 2017. The bill, kn ...

October 12, 2015
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Governor Signs Groundbreaking Bill to Combat Racial Profiling

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|Date: October 04, 2015
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Governor Signs Groundbreaking Bill to Combat Racial Profiling

On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 ...

On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, into California law. The law, AB 953, written by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, requires law e ...

October 04, 2015
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Victory for Privacy Rights in California

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|Date: September 13, 2015
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Victory for Privacy Rights in California

by Nicole A. Ozer It was a really good week in California for privacy rights. The legislature passed the ...

by Nicole A. Ozer It was a really good week in California for privacy rights. The legislature passed the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA SB 178) with strong bipartisan suppor ...

September 13, 2015
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California Will Become First in Nation to Collect All Data on Police Traffic Stops

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|Date: September 12, 2015
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California Will Become First in Nation to Collect All Data on Police Traffic Stops

(From ACLU Press Release) - With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California ...

(From ACLU Press Release) - With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California is poised to pass AB 953: The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, the first-of-its-kind ...

September 12, 2015
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Can California Lead on Privacy in Cloud Computing?

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|Date: September 06, 2015
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Can California Lead on Privacy in Cloud Computing?

by Anupam Chander My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records w ...

by Anupam Chander My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records were kept at home, in their offices, or with close confidantes. I grew up in a world of computer ...

September 06, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sodomite Suppression Exposes Mockery of System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 30, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sodomite Suppression Exposes Mockery of System

It sounds like something we would have come up with a joke in college. Just as Jonathan Swift once opined ...

It sounds like something we would have come up with a joke in college. Just as Jonathan Swift once opined about eating babies as a solution to the Irish Famine, passing an absurd proposition would exp ...

March 30, 2015
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Two More Proposed Bills in California Look at Post-Ferguson Reforms Including Police Body Cameras

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 27, 2015
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Two More Proposed Bills in California Look at Post-Ferguson Reforms Including Police Body Cameras

In the wake of Ferguson, we have had a nationwide discussion on issues focusing on police accountability ...

In the wake of Ferguson, we have had a nationwide discussion on issues focusing on police accountability and oversight. One idea that has emerged has been requiring police to wear police body cameras ...

February 27, 2015
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Legislation Would Create Independent Review in Police Shootings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2015
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Legislation Would Create Independent Review in Police Shootings

Long before the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner captured the nation’s attention, shootings like t ...

Long before the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner captured the nation’s attention, shootings like the 2009 killing of Luis Gutierrez by Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputies generated controversy for t ...

February 26, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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California Senate Bill Would Prevent Use of Grand Juries in Officer-Related Shootings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 25, 2015
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California Senate Bill Would Prevent Use of Grand Juries in Officer-Related Shootings

Last fall, the use of grand juries in two high profile officer-involved killings of unarmed black men pro ...

Last fall, the use of grand juries in two high profile officer-involved killings of unarmed black men prompted scrutiny and controversy over the grand jury system. The decision by the grand jury in Fe ...

February 25, 2015
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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 28, 2015
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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the C ...

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the California Center for Parent Empowerment, and RiShawn Biddle, editor of Dropout Nation, describe ...

January 28, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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