ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union, Sand Diego & Imperial Counties

In an alarming number of cases, Customs and Border Protection agents are using excessive force and ignoring due process at ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border, charged the ACLU in an administrative complaint sent yesterday to the Department of…

WASHINGTON – Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project who attended this morning’s arguments at the Supreme Court stressed the need to stop SB 1070-type laws because they encourage racial profiling, harm public safety and lead to…

Across the country we’re seeing ongoing attacks on access to reproductive health care. Massive attacks. The Guttmacher Institute released data today detailing that, just a few months into 2012, hundreds of provisions to restrict abortion access have been introduced in state legislatures…

When we stop spending millions of dollars a year to incarcerate Californians whose only crime is addiction, we will free up funding that can be used to help more people get the treatment they need. This is the logic behind…

With an eye towards ending punitive drug policies that have made the United States the world’s largest incarcerator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation to reduce the penalty for Californians…

More than 200 ACLU of California members, activists, students, and supporters used their feet, brains and voices to advocate for three important bills before the California Legislature this session, and for civil liberties and civil rights in general. The 2012…

We’re all safer when we foster trust and transparency between all communities and the local police. But the out-of-control “Secure” Communities (known as S-Comm) deportation program is destroying those relationships, making us less safe and burdening our local governments. The…

SACRAMENTO — While other states and Congress are moving to restrict reproductive health care, in California nursing and medical organizations, reproductive health advocates and women’s rights groups have come together to support legislation that would increase access to comprehensive reproductive…

With an eye towards ending punitive drug policies that have made the United States the world’s largest incarcerator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation to reduce the penalty for Californians…

SAN DIEGO—To protect service members when they comment on issues of public concern, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties is joining with Gary Kreep and Nathan Oleson, of the United States Justice Foundation, Oathkeepers, J. Mark Brewer, of…

NEW YORK – Many of the approximately 200 law enforcement agencies responding to public record requests by the American Civil Liberties Union track cell phones without a warrant, according to documents newly released by the ACLU. A small number of…

The following can be attributed to Kevin Keenan, Executive Director, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties. A day late, and hundreds of thousands of dollars short. In our initial analysis of the internal report issued by the City of…

The ACLU of Florida has been leading our organization’s response to the killing of Trayvon Martin in suburban Orlando. Most recently–at a rally yesterday, March 22, 2012, attended by thousands–Dr. Joyce Hamilton-Henry, the ACLU’s Mid-Florida Regional Director, delivered these remarks sharply critical of…

SAN DIEGO — The decisions counties are making right now about how to implement realignment will have dramatic and long-lasting impacts on public safety and on local taxpayers. In a new 100-page report, Public Safety Realignment: California at a Crossroads,…

The ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties sent a demand letter to Encinitas’s city manager expressing concerns about the city’s recent decision to reject a street banner bearing the likeness of a deceased city council member. In the letter,…