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At a time when the internment of Japanese-American citizens has been cited as precedent for creating a Muslim-American registry, flag burning is mentioned casually as something that might strip Americans of citizenship, and the Constitution feels under attack, want to know more about the history of the ACLU? Read More

Today, California lawmakers introduced Assembly Bill 3 and Senate Bill 6 to provide legal representation to the state’s immigrant communities who will be targeted by the federal government’s efforts to ramp up deportation programs and go after new classes of people for deportation. Read More

When she was 17 years old, Rosa* fled her home country and came to the U.S. seeking a better life. As she made her way across the border, she was raped. After she arrived in the U.S. alone, she was taken into federal custody and then placed with a Catholic organization that receives taxpayer money to provide services to young women like Rosa. Read More

Each year, thousands of Californians are kept in jail awaiting trial simply because they can't afford to post bail. Read More

Download the Fall 2016 ACLU of Northern California Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. Read More

President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted that anyone who burns a flag should be jailed or even stripped of their U.S. citizenship. The idea that the government could use citizenship as a punishment for political speech is not simply unconstitutional, but fundamentally un-American. Read More

On opening day of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C., I crossed the threshold with a memory deeply embedded in my psyche. Read More

On January 20, President Obama will hand Donald Trump the keys to the surveillance state. What can you do to protect against government spying? Read More

My mother was seven years old when she and her family were evacuated from the West Coast and forced to live in an Army barrack behind barbed wire in an internment camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Born in Los Angeles, she had been taught in school to be a proud and loyal American citizen, so the wholesale exclusion and relocation of her community was both terrifying and confusing. On the journey to... Read More

As a matter of organizational policy, the ACLU doesn't take a position supporting or opposing presidential or judicial nominations. We do, however, educate the American people and the Congress about nominees’ records and past positions. Read More