For Immediate Release: Jun 24, 2016
Media Contact: press@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493
five women with obscured faces

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California today filed a lawsuit against the federal government for awarding millions of dollars annually to organizations that fail to provide crucial medical care to unaccompanied immigrant minors. The government authorizes some of these organizations to refuse — on religious grounds — to follow the law that requires access to contraception and abortion, even in cases of rape.

Jun 24, 2016
The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the City of Hayward and its Police Department for charging the National Lawyers Guild unlawful and excessive costs as the price of disclosing body camera footage the NLG requested under the California Public Records Act.
Jun 23, 2016
Today the Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked on United States v. Texas. The one-line non-decision leaves unanswered the central question about the president’s authority to set policy guidelines for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in the deportation system. But it is a non-decision with a profound impact.
For Immediate Release: Jun 17, 2016
Media Contact: press@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493
police car lights

Sacramento – Several police officers from five Bay Area cities, including Oakland and Richmond, are currently the subject of internal investigations following allegations that over 20 current and former officers abused their power and had sex with a sex worker in exchange for protection and advanced warning about prostitution stings. Now 18, the woman says she was underage when some of the encounters occurred. The scandal became public weeks after the California Legislature killed a bill to allow public access to some police misconduct records.

For Immediate Release: Jun 16, 2016
Media Contact: press@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493
ACLU of Northern CA

San Francisco – Following the mass shooting and murder at Latin Night at Pulse, an LGBTQ club in Orlando, Florida, Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California, issued the following statement:

We hold in our hearts those who were injured, those who were killed, and the families and loved ones who are mourning in Orlando, and throughout the country after the shooting and mass murder.

Jun 15, 2016
ACLU of Northern California, along with a coalition of legal organizations, has brought suit against Solano County Superior Court, challenging the court’s practice of suspending the driver’s licenses of people who are too poor to pay exorbitant traffic fines. In California, millions of people do not have valid driver’s licenses because they cannot afford to pay traffic fines and fees. In 2015, over 11,000 driver’s licenses were suspended in Solano County for failure to pay. This is the first lawsuit in California to challenge the suspension of driver’s licenses as a means of collecting unpaid traffic fines.
Subscribe to