The California ACLUs and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the county in 2021 for illegally sharing drivers' locations with federal and out-of-state agencies.

An 11-year lawsuit that helped transform how California cares for people who have committed crimes and struggle with mental illness has come to a quiet conclusion. In a five-page order issued last Mon...

Remember the number: 39. And vote No in November.

SJPD revealed a data breach involving a now-former officer sharing tracking information about a potential domestic violence victim to his relative.

The Court of Appeal’s new requirement would undermine the purpose of SB 34 and the California constitutional right to privacy.

A final decision on the future of the site is expected in October.

ACLU Settlement Victory for Privacy Protections

More than two dozen immigrants have been held at San Francisco’s airport this year for longer than three days, in violation of Customs and Border Protection’s guidelines.

The ruling was a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which maintained that the threat of deportation had led some noncitizens to no longer work there or express their views.

The number of immigration arrests spiked even without high-profile raids.

If California’s capital punishment law is found to violate the state constitution, it may provide a template for death penalty opponents in other states.

As a public school student in California, you have rights at your school. Explore them so you can advocate for yourself and your communities.

The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to court reporter unions, ordering that recordings of hearings are vital when certified reporters aren’t available

A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

Black motorists made up 41% of all traffic stops, despite only being 16% of the city’s population.

Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

The fate of SF Pretrial, a group that runs diversion programs, reflects the tough-on-crime sentiment emerging even in liberal cities.

ICE has shot and killed two more people – Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero. This devastating violence is the predictable outcome when ICE is given a near-unlimited budget while surging new agents into our streets. Congress must stop ICE's deadly spree.

The move came amid a lawsuit against ICE by Santa Clara County and the State of California over the project, and a court motion in that case by the county and state, seeking a temporary injunction hal...

We’ll talk to an immigration reporter who’s been following the case, an ACLU lawyer who represents TPS holders, and a Bay Area man who moved to the U.S. from Honduras as a toddler who’s now in a preca...

County governments in California can establish agencies to oversee their sheriff’s offices and obtain their records under a ruling affirmed Wednesday by the state Supreme Court.

Measure B Takes Away Mail Voting for Nearly All Shasta County Residents

The lawmaker joins California politicians and advocates who’ve weighed in on prop 39, which would require IDs at the ballot box.

The struggle between exclusion and equal protection defines American history — and this moment.

A federal judge approved the ACLU’s request for a preliminary injunction on Tuesday after picking apart the ordinance’s logic.

Court greenlights Trump administration's termination of TPS for Syria and Haiti and eliminated most judicial review of TPS decision-making

A federal judge dealt a far-reaching blow to a Trump administration policy of arresting immigrants at immigration court, ruling that it has to stop in every kind of courthouse in the U.S.

Ordered disclosed after a years-long legal fight, the report is the city’s own investigation into a ritual in which Vallejo police bent their badges to mark the civilians they killed.

Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California