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Guest Commentary: Arizona Violated the Rights of Incarcerated People for More Than a Decade – That Will Finally End.

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|Date: January 25, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Arizona Violated the Rights of Incarcerated People for More Than a Decade – That Will Finally End.

A judge is holding Arizona accountable after hearing from our incarcerated clients about the abuse they e ...

A judge is holding Arizona accountable after hearing from our incarcerated clients about the abuse they endured in custody. By Maria Morris Arizona chose — for more than a decade — to violate the cons ...

January 25, 2023
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ACLU National Prison Project Urges U.S. Treasury to Investigate Misuse of American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Build and Expand Prisons

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|Date: January 22, 2023
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ACLU National Prison Project Urges U.S. Treasury to Investigate Misuse of American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Build and Expand Prisons

By Julie McCaffrey WASHINGTON, DC - A letter authored by ACLU’s National Prison Project advised Richard K ...

By Julie McCaffrey WASHINGTON, DC - A letter authored by ACLU’s National Prison Project advised Richard K. Delmar of the U.S. Treasury Department last week to investigate the misuse of millions of Ame ...

January 22, 2023
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Guest Commentary: To Root Out Racism in the Criminal Legal System, We Can’t Fear Too Much Justice

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|Date: January 21, 2023
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Guest Commentary: To Root Out Racism in the Criminal Legal System, We Can’t Fear Too Much Justice

The landmark California Racial Justice Act is allowing our clients to challenge their death penalty prose ...

The landmark California Racial Justice Act is allowing our clients to challenge their death penalty prosecutions in Riverside County. By Robert Ponce Long before I joined the ACLU, I was just a skinny ...

January 21, 2023
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HUD’s Critical Fair Housing Rule Seen As Major Step in Right Direction to Advance Fair and Affordable Housing and Strengthen Communities

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|Date: January 20, 2023
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HUD’s Critical Fair Housing Rule Seen As Major Step in Right Direction to Advance Fair and Affordable Housing and Strengthen Communities

Special to the Vanguard Washington, DC – HUD announced on Thursday it will publish a Notice of Proposed R ...

Special to the Vanguard Washington, DC – HUD announced on Thursday it will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register to fulfill the promise of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The prop ...

January 20, 2023
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CURB Holds Statewide Rally Sharing Its Plan to Close Ten Prisons by 2025

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|Date: January 13, 2023
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CURB Holds Statewide Rally Sharing Its Plan to Close Ten Prisons by 2025

By Robert J Hansen Sacramento, CA - Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) held a statewide ...

By Robert J Hansen Sacramento, CA - Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) held a statewide online rally calling on Governor Gavin Newsom and the state to adopt a comprehensive plan for f ...

January 13, 2023
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Federal Judge Rules Arizona State Prison System Must Undergo Major Reform to Protect Incarcerated Health

Posted by Ramneet Singh
|Date: January 13, 2023
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Federal Judge Rules Arizona State Prison System Must Undergo Major Reform to Protect Incarcerated Health

By Daphne Ho and Ramneet Singh PHOENIX, AZ - The Arizona state prison system must undergo major reform to ...

By Daphne Ho and Ramneet Singh PHOENIX, AZ - The Arizona state prison system must undergo major reform to meet constitutional requirements through the healthcare standards described in U.S. District J ...

January 13, 2023
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Huge Coalition in San Francisco Calls for the End of Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

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|Date: January 12, 2023
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Huge Coalition in San Francisco Calls for the End of Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – A press conference held early Wednesday inside ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – A press conference held early Wednesday inside City Hall called for an end to racially-biased traffic stops, also known as “driving, bicyclin ...

January 12, 2023
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South Carolina Federal Judge Lifts Ban on Automated Data Collection of Online Records, Benefiting Tenants, Claims NAACP, ACLU

Posted by Brinda Kalita
|Date: January 12, 2023
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South Carolina Federal Judge Lifts Ban on Automated Data Collection of Online Records, Benefiting Tenants, Claims NAACP, ACLU

By Jariah Moore, Kimberly Torres and Brinda Kalita COLUMBIA, SC - A federal judge Tuesday here ruled in a ...

By Jariah Moore, Kimberly Torres and Brinda Kalita COLUMBIA, SC - A federal judge Tuesday here ruled in a tenant right case filed by the ACLU and NAACP that banning automatic data collection, also kno ...

January 12, 2023
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ACLU Files Motion to Intervene in Federal Lawsuit that would Prevent Transgender Student’s Right to Use Gender Identifying Restroom

Posted by Rena Abdusalam
|Date: January 10, 2023
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ACLU Files Motion to Intervene in Federal Lawsuit that would Prevent Transgender Student’s Right to Use Gender Identifying Restroom

By Rena Abdusalam COLUMBUS, OH - In support of a transgender student, a motion to intervene in a federal ...

By Rena Abdusalam COLUMBUS, OH - In support of a transgender student, a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit has been filed here this week by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, ...

January 10, 2023
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Biden Administration Announces New Controversial Border Enforcement Actions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2023
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Biden Administration Announces New Controversial Border Enforcement Actions

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – In December the Supreme Court issued an order to ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – In December the Supreme Court issued an order to prevent the Title 42 public health order from being lifted. In response, the Biden administrat ...

January 06, 2023
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Human Rights Groups Dealt Another Blow By Supreme Court on Title 42

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2022
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Human Rights Groups Dealt Another Blow By Supreme Court on Title 42

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – In a blow to human rights groups who have been se ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC – In a blow to human rights groups who have been seeking to halt the controversial Title 42 pandemic-era health measure that restricted migration ...

December 28, 2022
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Sheriff Jones Must Comply with Pro-Immigrant State Laws Under Lawsuit Settlement

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|Date: December 22, 2022
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Sheriff Jones Must Comply with Pro-Immigrant State Laws Under Lawsuit Settlement

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones was accused of illegally transfer ...

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones was accused of illegally transferring immigrants from the county jail to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

December 22, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Lessons from San Francisco’s Killer Robot Debate

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|Date: December 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Lessons from San Francisco’s Killer Robot Debate

By Jennifer Tu and John Lindsay-Poland San Francisco, CA - In November, San Francisco police proposed a n ...

By Jennifer Tu and John Lindsay-Poland San Francisco, CA - In November, San Francisco police proposed a new city policy that would have authorized the lethal use of robots. Codifying police policies a ...

December 21, 2022
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Attorney General Proposes to End Sentencing Disparities on Crack and Powder Cocaine

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2022
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Attorney General Proposes to End Sentencing Disparities on Crack and Powder Cocaine

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC - One of the biggest legacies of the so-called war ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Washington, DC - One of the biggest legacies of the so-called war on drugs and the crack hysteria of the 1980s was federal sentencing disparities that punished p ...

December 18, 2022
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Guest Commentary: It’s Simply Too Dangerous to Arm Robots

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|Date: December 17, 2022
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Guest Commentary: It’s Simply Too Dangerous to Arm Robots

Here are our guiding principles that communities and policymakers should follow when debating police robo ...

Here are our guiding principles that communities and policymakers should follow when debating police robots. By Jay Stanley San Francisco was embroiled in controversy earlier this month over a proposa ...

December 17, 2022
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Guest Commentary: From the Death Penalty to Marijuana, Clemency Is a Tool for Justice

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|Date: December 15, 2022
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Guest Commentary: From the Death Penalty to Marijuana, Clemency Is a Tool for Justice

Granting clemency to broad categories of people is a first step toward correcting injustice in our crimin ...

Granting clemency to broad categories of people is a first step toward correcting injustice in our criminal legal system. By Cynthia W. Roseberry Yesterday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commuted the state’s ...

December 15, 2022
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Guest Commentary: The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul

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|Date: December 11, 2022
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Guest Commentary: The Child Welfare System Needs an Overhaul

I thought I would help families by working in the foster care system. Instead I found a system that was q ...

I thought I would help families by working in the foster care system. Instead I found a system that was quick to separate children from their parents because they were living in poverty. By Hina Navee ...

December 11, 2022
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ACLU Complaint Charges Discrimination against NorCal Native American Students

Posted by Kevin Barragan
|Date: December 09, 2022
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ACLU Complaint Charges Discrimination against NorCal Native American Students

By Kevin Barragan SAN FRANCISO, CA - The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern Californ ...

By Kevin Barragan SAN FRANCISO, CA - The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California has filed a complaint with the U.S Department of Education for Civil Rights charging discrim ...

December 09, 2022
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Epic All-Day Meeting as Sacramento County Debates Expanding Its Jail

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: December 08, 2022
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Epic All-Day Meeting as Sacramento County Debates Expanding Its Jail

By Robert J Hansen Sacramento, CA - At yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting which lasted well into t ...

By Robert J Hansen Sacramento, CA - At yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting which lasted well into the night, hundreds voiced their opinion on whether to expand the Main Jail. Those against expan ...

December 08, 2022
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Letter: ACLU Opposes Sacramento Jail Expansion

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|Date: December 08, 2022
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Letter: ACLU Opposes Sacramento Jail Expansion

Dear Members of the Board: The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (“ACLU No ...

Dear Members of the Board: The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (“ACLU NorCal”) writes to urge the Board to again reject Sacramento County’s proposed construction to bu ...

December 08, 2022
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