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The five-year settlement requires the city to follow its bag-and-tag policy and establishes strong oversight measures. The Coalition on Homelessness sued San Francisco in 2022 over its practice of seizing and destroying unhoused residents’ belongings during encampment sweeps in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Read More

A federal district court found that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem did not have the authority to cancel the extension of Temporary Protected Status the Biden administration had granted to more than one million Venezuelans and Haitians who have lived and worked lawfully in the US for years. (Photo courtesy of Sam Comen) Read More

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal while the case proceeds. The people affected by the court's ruling have lived in the United States for more than a decade. Read More

A letter to the Vallejo City Council argues that leaving these grave allegations unaddressed would undermine confidence in city government and worsen an existing public safety crisis in Vallejo where police officers shot and killed 30 people from April 2001 to June 2020. Read More

The National TPS Alliance sued the Trump administration over the federal government's termination of Temporary Protected Status for thousands of people from Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua who have lived lawfully in the United States for many years. Read More

The petition demonstrates that racial disparities in California’s implementation of the death penalty are persistent, pervasive, and well documented. Black people are about five times more likely to be sentenced to death when compared to similarly situated non-Black defendants, while Latino people are at least three times more likely to be sentenced to death. Read More

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling allows Donald Trump to retain control of the California National Guard troops he deployed in Los Angeles while the state's lawsuit proceeds. Read More

Though today’s decision is devastating for trans people across the country, California law still protects the rights of trans youth to access the care they need. Read More

As we await the Ninth Circuit decision on Trump’s unlawful federalization of CA National Guard, the ACLUs of California thank Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta for filing suit to protect the fundamental rights of all Californians and challenge this dangerous abuse of power that threatens core democratic principles. Although a federal judge ruled to halt Trump’s deployment of the... Read More

Trump's decision to send thousands of National Guard troops into Los Angeles is clearly retaliatory and an attempt to suppress constitutionally protected protests against the administration's violent immigration enforcement raids. Read More

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit to block Sonoma County code inspectors from using drones to conduct surveillance of people's homes without a warrant. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to stay a federal district court's order that had preserved Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who have sought refuge in the United States and are unable to return safely to Venezuela. Read More