What can go wrong when a private company builds a nationwide mass surveillance network that records billions of license plate scans per month? Nick Hidalgo, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northe...

Do NOT open your door. ICE can’t come into your home unless they have a signed search warrant or you let them in.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls,...

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.

Lawsuit argues that Trump policy of purging politically sensitive terms from research projects violates free speech

Learn how to fight the proliferation of Flock Safety cameras and other automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in your city. Get facts, sample letters, and advocacy tools from the ACLU of Northern Cal...

Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything

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.

Learn about your rights to speak, protest, publish, document, and dissent freely.

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.

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

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

ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take ac...

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.

Learn how to fight the proliferation of Flock Safety cameras and other automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in your city. Get facts, sample letters, and advocacy tools from the ACLU of Northern Cal...

An analysis of 2023-2024 traffic stop data collected under California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) found that Sacramento police disproportionately stopped Black drivers. Black people mad...

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

This resource provides travel safety tips and other resources for immigrants traveling through U.S. airports.

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.