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The ACLU Foundation of Northern California has filed a lawsuit to protect the constitutional rights of defendants with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities in California.
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Dakota Bodell is a legal associate at the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity, she works with both the Racial and Economic Justice Team and the Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice Team in active litigation and advocacy matters.
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In November 2022, the ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit to compel the city of Vallejo to release public records that contain information about officers in the Vallejo Police Department who bent their badges after on-duty shootings, allegedly as a badge of honor. The ACLU's petition details Vallejo PD's long history of shooting and killing people, a disproportionate number of whom are People of Color.
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On July 14, 2021, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, Disability Rights Advocates, King & Spalding LLP, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise filed a class action complaint against the City of Mountain View for enacting two ordinances that, together, severely restricted when and where “oversized vehicles” (OSVs) could park in the City.