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By a margin of 4-7, the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to give the SFPD access to privately owned cameras. With the cameras, comes the power to put essentially the entire city under live surveillance indefinitely. Read More

An ACLU lawsuit urges the court to prevent the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office from requiring that individuals agree to unconstitutional “four-way” searches and GPS location data-sharing as conditions of pretrial release on electronic monitoring. Read More

Over the course of four years, the ACLU uncovered documents showing that sheriffs throughout the Central Valley have worked behind the scenes to evade pro-immigrant laws. They have devised underhanded schemes to transfer people from jails to ICE and avoid the public reporting required under state law. Read More

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — which establishes basic requirements to protect Native American children from continued forced removal from their families, tribes, and tribal culture — is slated to be reviewed by the Supreme Court this fall via Brackeen v. Haaland. Read More

The Indian Child Welfare Act — a law that protects Native children from forced removal from their families, tribes, and culture — is currently under attack. Read More

For years, Siskiyou County officials and the Siskiyou Sheriff’s Department have threatened, targeted, and intimidated Hmong American and other Asian American community members in an effort to isolate them and drive them out of the region. A new class action lawsuit led by four Asian American community members details how county officials have waged a systematic campaign of racist hostility and per... Read More

Tribal sovereignty is once again under attack. In June, the Supreme Court issued a devastating ruling in Oklahoma v Castro-Huerta, giving states unprecedented power to prosecute crimes in Indian country at the expense of Indigenous people and tribal sovereignty. Read More

Here in the Bay Area, we must do everything we can right now to bolster privacy protections, not build more surveillance. Read More

A key legal victory will prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from illegally using a third-party contractor, G4S Secure Solutions, Inc., to arrest people at jails and prisons to funnel them into the deportation pipeline. Read More

In 2021, we partnered with the Black Bill of Rights to develop a community toolkit for people seeking to address systemic oppression and anti-Black racism. The Black Bill of Rights is a resource hub that provides education, templates, and data for communities to take action and develop policies and practices that restore freedom and opportunity for Black people in the United States. It is an ever-... Read More