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In May 2024, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) banned over 110 students and faculty from campus after their arrest at a pro-Palestine protest. The bans went into effect immediately and cut off students and faculty from classes, jobs, and other school resources, such as meal plans, health care, and housing. Read More

Today, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh filed a lawsuit against the University of California Santa Cruz for banning more than 100 students and faculty members from campus after they were arrested at a pro-Palestine protest this past May. Read More

Christine Hong, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Laaila, an undergraduate in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Environmental Studies, offer their firsthand accounts of the protests and their aftermath at UC Santa Cruz. Read More

Lo que encontrará en esta guía: QUIÉN puede votar, CÓMO registrarse para votar, CUÁNDO y DÓNDE puedes emitir tu voto y CONSEJOS CLAVE para ser un votante informado. Read More

En California, los estudiantes de las escuelas públicas tienen derechos para proteger su capacidad de acceso a la educación. Estos derechos pueden protegerte de diferentes maneras, desde mantenerte a salvo del acoso escolar hasta asegurarte el acceso a recursos en la escuela si tú y tu familia se quedan sin vivienda. En este sitio web puedes obtener más información sobre estos derechos y sobre lo ... Read More

California’s immigration detention facilities are plagued by severe and ongoing human rights abuse. Read More

Our new report corroborates what people detained immigrant have been saying for years: ICE is committing widespread human rights violations across its immigration detention facilities in California. Read More

A new report, Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: A Year in California Immigration Detention, analyzes hundreds of complaints filed by detained people through Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) grievance system. Read More

For the third time in five years, California rejected a bill that would have greenlit government use of facial recognition across the state.  Read More

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked several provisions of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) that impermissibly and unconstitutionally placed content-based burdens on speech. Read More