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Nick Hidalgo is a senior staff attorney for the Democracy, Speech, and Technology Project at the ACLU of Northern California, where he works on a variety of issues, including privacy, surveillance, and free speech.
Prior to joining the ACLU of Northern California, Nick was a deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice, where he worked to protect Californians from fraud and financial misconduct through enforcement of the California False Claims Act.
The ACLU Foundation of Northern California has filed a lawsuit to protect the constitutional rights of defendants with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities in California.
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.
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.