Archive

On Thursday, the Trump administration sent federal immigration agents to the Bay Area. They fired flash bangs at peaceful protesters.   Read More

Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, det... Read More

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them. Read More

The ACLU of Northern California today condemned President Trump’s inflammatory surge of federal immigration agents to the Bay Area and his threat to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Read More

No matter what uniform they wear, law enforcement and military troops are bound by the Constitution. Read More

The League of Women Voters has gone to court to prevent the Trump administration from accessing and misusing voting data that could harm California communities Read More

In the past month, we have sued the Trump administration twice to stop illegal arrests of immigrants by ICE. Read More

We filed an amicus brief to support the Stanford Daily student newspaper's challenge of the Trump administration's unlawful use of the Immigration Nationality Act to suppress noncitizens' protected speech supporting Palestine and criticizing Israel. Read More

We filed two motions seeking preliminary orders to prevent ICE from arresting immigrants at courthouses and detaining them overnight in unsafe conditions in holding cells meant for temporary detention at ICE offices while the federal class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's unlawful immigration enforcement tactics proceeds. Read More

We filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy of re-arresting and re-detaining immigrants the government previously had released from custody after concluding they were neither dangerous nor a flight risk. Read More