CBP Fails to Discredit Report on Abuse of Immigrant Kids
By Mitra Ebadolahi Last week, the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project and University of Chicago Law’s International Human…
Senate Approves Bill to Establish Safeguards before Law Enforcement Can Acquire New Surveillance Technology
SB 1186 will require local elected officials’ approval before law enforcement acquires surveillance technologies like drones, social…
Police Misconduct and Wrongful Conviction Bills Advance
California Senate Advances “Right to Know” Police Transparency Legislation with Bipartisan Support SB 1421 will open California…
Sessions Wants Police to Use Stop and Frisk without Reasonable Suspicion
By Jeffery Robinson Attorney General Jeff Sessions has claimed that the settlement of a lawsuit brought by…
Advocates Applaud Advancement of Bill to Open Police Misconduct Records in California
(From Press Release) – Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced legislation to open law enforcement misconduct…
Congress Wants More Protections for Cops While Ignoring Police Reform
By Kanya Bennett An “empty gesture” — that is the term that Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Democrat from…
Prosecutors Hid Evidence of Corey Williams’ Innocence in Pursuit of a Death Sentence
By Anna Arceneaux In 2000, Corey Williams, a Black teenager with an intellectual disability, was tried and…
Meet the “Poster Children” for Bail Reform
Bail Reform Advocates Unveil Website Highlighting Repeated Abuses by Agents of California’s Out-of-Control Money Bail Industry (From…
In Its Zeal to Deport Immigrants, the Justice Department Scraps Due Process
By Cecilia Wang In the past month, the Department of Justice has issued a series of stunningly…
Public Safety Committee Pushes Police Transparency and Accountability Legislation Forward
Back in 2006, the California Supreme Court in Copley Press v. Superior Court held that records of…
How California Can Reduce the Number of Police Shootings
By Peter Bibring Police in California have a problem with deadly force. Last year, police shot and…
ACLU of Northern California Calls on State to Allow Full Press Access to Executions
First Amendment Guarantees Right to View Entire Procedure (From Press Release) – The American Civil Liberties Union…
Police Get a Green Light to Shoot First and Think Later
By Emma Andersson The Supreme Court just ruled that a police officer could not be sued for…
Strong Sanctuary Policies in K-12 Schools
By Ana Nájera Mendoza Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra provided all California public school leaders…
Commentary: Is Stephon Clark Shooting Bad Enough to Change the Rules of the Game?
The shooting of Stephon Clark is not the first shooting in Sacramento by police in recent years,…
OC Prosecutor Ran a Secret, Unconstitutional Jailhouse Informant Scheme for Years
By Somil Trivedi When Bethany Webb’s sister, Laura, was killed in a mass shooting in 2011, she…
Bill Introduced Tuesday at State Capitol to Restrict Use of Force for Peace Officers
Yolo DA Candidate Among First to Support Bill By Crescenzo Vellucci SACRAMENTO – Action does not usually…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Does a Prosecutor Have to Be Tough on Crime?
I found Matt Rexroad’s letter in support of DA Jeff Reisig interesting. I asked him if he…
Not Charging the White Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling Is a Travesty
by Colleen Kane Gielskie (Editor’s note: Since this article was published, the two officers who shot Alton…
Greyhound Must Stop Giving Border Patrol Permission to Conduct Bus Raids
(From Press Release) – Greyhound buses, once a symbol of travel on America’s vast highways, have become…