Press Releases

January, 2012

Proposed Law Would Restore Local Control Over Intelligence Gathering (Jan 25, 2012)


November, 2011

UCSF Report: California Schools Make Uneven Progress on Improving Sex Ed (Nov 30, 2011)

Bay Area Rights Groups Ask FBI Director to Address Racial Profiling, Islamophobia (Nov 17, 2011)

Vigil to End Shackling of Immigration Detainees in Civil Immigration Court (Nov 17, 2011)

ACLU and National Lawyers Guild File Suit Against Oakland Police Department (Nov 14, 2011)

LGBT Equality Groups Urge Ninth Circuit to Reject Attack on Prop 8 Trial Judge (Nov 8, 2011)


October, 2011

City of Antioch Agrees to Federal Court Supervision (Oct 26, 2011)

New CA Law is a Historic Victory for Reader Privacy (Oct 3, 2011)


September, 2011

Reforming Criminal Justice: 12 Recommendations to Make CA’s Realignment Law Work (Sep 13, 2011)

ACLU Calls for Records on "Silent Raids" of CA Workplaces by ICE and Department of Homeland Security (Sep 8, 2011)

School District Drops Illegal Drug Testing Policy, Reaches Settlement with ACLU (Sep 6, 2011)


August, 2011

ACLU Challenges Coercive Police Interrogation of Students at Davis High School (Aug 16, 2011)

ACLU of California: Time to End Addiction to Incarceration (Aug 16, 2011)

Lawyers' Committee and ACLU Sue ICE, Homeland Security for Shackling Non-Violent Detainees During Immigration Proceedings (Aug 15, 2011)

ACLU Sues FDA on State Lethal Injection Imports for Use in Executions (Aug 12, 2011)

Secure Mobile Chat App Wins Develop for Privacy Challenge (Aug 5, 2011)

ACLU of CA Demands Information on How Police Are Using Surveillance Technology To Track Us (Aug 3, 2011)


July, 2011

ACLU Applauds Court Order Removing the Circumcision Ban From the San Francisco Ballot (Jul 28, 2011)

ACLU Announces Settlement of Case to Protect Immigrants' Rights in Sonoma County (Jul 20, 2011)


ACLU of California Statement on California Prison Hunger Strike (Jul 19, 2011)