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For Immediate Release: Dec 03, 2015
Media Contact: press@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493

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  • Read more about Department of Defense Opens All Military Combat Jobs to Women with No Exceptions
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter today announced that the U.S. armed forces will open all combat jobs, units, and schools to qualified women beginning next year, making no exceptions for any branch of the armed services.

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Dec 03, 2015

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  • Read more about Hegar v. Carter (Women in Combat)

Four servicewomen and the Service Women's Action Network, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against the Department of Defense for its ongoing blanket exclusion of women from thousands of ground combat positions. 

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For Immediate Release: Dec 02, 2015
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  • Read more about Catholic Hospital Continues to Deny Health Care Procedure for Pregnant Women
The ACLU today sent a letter demanding that Dignity Health, doing business as Mercy Medical Center Redding, a Catholic-affiliated hospital in California’s largest hospital network, stop unlawfully denying post-partum tubal ligation to patients based on religious doctrine.

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Nov 23, 2015

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  • Read more about A Criminal Injustice: When Jailers and Prosecutors Go Bad
Not only has the Orange County Sheriff’s Department been secretly facilitating efforts by jailhouse informants to elicit statements from fellow inmates, but the Orange County District Attorney’s office appears to have systemically concealed evidence about these informants from defense attorneys, including evidence that would exonerate defendants.

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Nov 17, 2015

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  • Read more about California Just Got a Privacy Upgrade – Alameda County, It's Your Move
A few weeks ago, Alameda County Sheriff Ahern requested authorization from the Board of Supervisors to upgrade the county’s StingRay surveillance equipment. Today, the Board again postponed the decision in order to develop a use-policy.

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Nov 12, 2015

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  • Read more about The Same Death Penalty Circus... Just a Different Day
Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling which had found California’s death penalty unconstitutional. But although death penalty proponents may be claiming a big victory, today’s ruling is just another example of how dysfunctional California’s death penalty system is.

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Nov 12, 2015

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  • Read more about ICE Strong Arms Immigrants into Signing Deportation Documents
Immigration agents wanted Heleno to sign a document that would've resulted in his immediate deportation. So they forced him.

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Nov 11, 2015

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  • Read more about Keep ICE Out of Fresno: Advocates Demand an End to Sheriff Mims's Policy
In June, Fresno County Sheriff Mims allowed ICE agents to be stationed inside the local jail, stirring fear in a community she vowed to protect.

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For Immediate Release: Nov 10, 2015
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  • Read more about Court Rejects President Obama's Expansion of U.S. Immigration Policy
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court’s preliminary injunction in Texas, et al. v. U.S., enjoining President Obama’s immigration executive action initiatives.

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For Immediate Release: Nov 09, 2015
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  • Read more about ACLU of California Report Finds Wild Divergences in Law Enforcement Practices One Year after Prop 47
The ACLU of California today released a report that finds both successes and challenges in Prop 47’s first year. The report includes 40 county snapshots with information on public safety spending, incarceration and crime trends, and a decline of people sentenced for low-level felonies.

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